Walnut Cookies

People said that walnut is good for brain....wonder how true was that statement.  Anyway i think our brain is so important we should take good care of it!

Recipe makes about 120 pcs of cookies
300g Top flour (sieve)
150g walnut (bake at 160 degree for 10 minutes, cool and blend to coarse powder)
100g walnut (raw do not prebake)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp bicarbonate soda
2 tsp baking powder
180g icing sugar
120g butter (semi hard)
120g shortening
1/2 tsp vanilla powder
2 egg yolks

For glazing: 1 egg+ 1/8 tsp salt (beat lightly and sieve)

• Put top flour, salt, bicarbonate soda, baking powder and coarse walnut powder in a normal bowl and mix them up well and leave aside.
• Sieve icing sugar into mixer bowl and add in 120g butter and shortening, vanilla powder and 2 egg yolks in.  Beat it for 2 minutes (1st minute slow and then change to fast speed).
• Add in flour mixture bit by bit into the mixer bowl and continue to beat with slow speed till all flour has been added in (do not over mixed).

• Grease few baking t ins with oil preheat oven at 180 degree.
• Roll dough into small equal size balls and put a piece of raw walnut on top and press lightly.  Leave enough gap in-between dough because cookies wll expand when baking.

• Egg wash cokies and bake at 180 degree for 10 minutes and then remove tray to do 2nd round of egg wash then bake till golden and remove from tray to wire rack to cool before storing.