Chocolate Walnut Cookies

Ingredients

• 250 g yogurt butter
• 125 g whole cane sugar
• 6 Eggs
• 300 g spelt flour
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 200 g ground walnuts
• 2 egg yolks
• 200 g milk chocolate couverture
• 40 walnut halves

Instructions

1. 1.

   Beat yogurt butter and whole cane sugar until fluffy. Gradually stir in 6 eggs.

2. 2.

   Sift spelt flour and baking powder over the egg mixture and fold in the ground walnuts.

3. 3.

   Spread the dough evenly on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

4. 4.

   Separate the remaining eggs (reserve whites for another use). Whisk the yolks and brush them over the dough. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C (fan 160 °C; gas: level 2–3) for about 20 minutes.

5. 5.

   Remove the tray from the oven. While still hot, cut the dough into diamond shapes and let cool.

6. 6.

   Melt the chocolate couverture over a double boiler on medium heat. Dip each cookie halfway into the melted chocolate and garnish with one walnut half.