I will show you how to make "Brutti ma buoni" walnut cookies - a traditional Italian sweet, it's easy and simple. As the name suggests: the view is not entirely presentable, but tasteful …!
Cooking description:
Instead of or together with hazelnuts, you can put dried fruits, almonds, pistachios, candied fruits, ground cinnamon or ginger. Ready cooled cookies can be covered with chocolate icing. Cookies are stored for 1 week in a sealed glass container.
Purpose: For an afternoon snack / Quickly
Main ingredient: Nuts / Eggs / Hazelnuts
Dish: Baking / Cookies
Cuisine geography: Italian / European
Ingredients:
- Egg whites - 80 Grams
- Sugar - 110 Grams
- Hazelnut - 150 Grams (kernel)
- Vanilla - 1 Teaspoon
Servings: 4
How to make "Brutti ma buoni" nut cookies"
1. Beat the cooled egg whites with a mixer until white foam. 2. Add ground vanilla. 3. Add sugar. 4. Whisk on a slow mixer speed for an additional 5 minutes, until soft peaks form. 5. Place the hazelnut kernels, chopped in a blender, into the whipped egg whites, and gently stir with a spatula with upward movements. 6. Transfer the mixture to a large saucepan and place on the stove over low heat. Stir constantly with a spatula so that the mixture does not stick to the bottom of the pan, wait until the whites turn light beige and slightly decrease in volume.