Hazelnut Star Cookies
I don’t believe its ever too early to make my favourite Hazelnut Star Cookies. They’re a bit fussy to roll out and cut, but so good! just an understated, delicious, butter cookie.
I usually put a bright red crabapple jelly between the bottom and top cookies, but I preferred to photograph them in their most simple form on my “Roughly Rustic” vinyl background. It all just comes together to say “warmth and love”.
“Roughly Rustic” was one of my favourite backgrounds. I could never get over how realistic it looked with the deep grooves and textures. Its from a photo I took of one of my old barn wood benches, and I’m thinking I may bring back to the the Shop in the new year.
Hazelnut Star Cookies
Hazelnut Star Cookies are a bit fussy to make, but are an understated, delicious, butter cookie and beautiful too!
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 cup hazelnuts, toasted
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 3 egg yolks large
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
- In a food processor, pulse the hazelnuts with 1/4 cup of the flour mixture until fine.
- Add remaining flour mixture and pulse, then add butter and pulse again to combine into coarse crumbs.
- Place in a bowl and use a fork to blend in egg yolks and vanilla until the dough comes together.
- Shape dough into two disks, wrap in parchment, and let chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Remove one disk from fridge and roll between two pieces of parchment paper to 1/8 inch thickness.
- Leave dough on parchment and set on cookie sheet. Refrigerate for another 30 minutes or more.
- Remove from fridge and cut with cookie cutters. Place on another parchment lined cookie sheet and cut out the centres from every second cookie.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes at 350F.
- Remove from oven and let cool.
- Dust tops of star-shaped cookies with icing sugar.
- Put filling on bottom cookie, and gently set the star cookie on top. Don't press or it will break.
- Let sit for a couple hours, or over night.
Notes
Use a bright red filling such as red raspberry jelly or crabapple jelly.
I found that once the butter and egg were added, I had to (gently) knead the dough to get it to come together (very similar to making pie crust).
*recipe adapted from Martha Stewart
