German Walnut Hearts Christmas Cookies

These German Walnut Hearts Christmas Cookies are a must bake for the holidays and Christmas. They contain walnuts, marzipan and are glazed with chocolate. These cookies are very easy to make and no special ingredients are needed. But it takes a while to make these cookies. Calculate 1-2 hours for making them. Happy Baking!

Ingredients German Walnut Hearts

(for about 30-40 cookies)
200 g butter
125 g powdered sugar
1 sachet vanilla sugar- Find it here – 
– How to Make Vanilla Sugar – 
1 egg yolk
60 g ground walnuts
300 g flour
400 g baking marzipan
powdered sugar for rolling the dough
apricot jam
400 g dark chocolate, semi-sweet or unsweetened
walnut halves for decoration

Baking Instructions Walnut Hearts

–  Combine butter with powdered sugar, egg yolk, vanilla sugar and ground walnuts.
– Add the sieved flour and knead until you get a smooth dough. Form a ball and wrap in plastic.
– Let sit in fridge for 1 hour.

– Add flour on a baking board or smooth surface, roll the dough so you can cut out hearts, stars or round shapes.
– Pre-heat oven to 150 C or 300 F.
– Place cookies on a baking tray that is layered with parchment paper.
– Bake cookies for 15 – 20 min.
– When done let them cool off a bit.

– Knead the marzipan with powdered sugar, roll thin and cut out with the same form you used for the cookies.
– Brush on each cookie some jam, place the marzipan cookie on top.
– Melt chocolate in double boiler.
– Dip the surface into the chocolate or brush the chocolate on top. Latter might be easier.
– Decorate right away each cookie with half of a walnut.

VARIATION

You can make double decker cookies:
– On one base cookie add the jam, then marzipan cookie, more jam and add a cookie that had been dipped into chocolate.

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