Nuts in a nutshell: 8 delicious homemade recipes

Those most cherished hazelnuts, which are adapted for cooking cookies in the form of real walnuts (most often), are divided into several different categories.

The five most commonly used ingredients in the recipes of nuts in a nutshell:

The first, the oldest, but nevertheless popular, is a heavy metal mold that looks like a frying pan with two bottoms, designed for cooking on a stove. It doesn't matter: gas or electric. In 90% of cases, such a thing will be found in the kitchen of any Russian housewife, almost certainly preserved after her grandmother or mother.

The second, more modern one is electric. There are a lot of variations here - both shape, size, and power may differ.

The third, designed, perhaps, for more experienced confectioners, is silicone.

In addition, all three varieties of hazel have so-called "subspecies". In some, you can cook cookies with nuts in halves. And in others - entirely. The first ones are prepared with fillings, and the second ones are prepared without. That is, in some we bake halves of nuts, which we then put together, "gluing" with cream on boiled condensed milk (as a rule). And others are baked entirely in the form of such balls. These are more suitable for a softer and more delicate biscuit dough.

There are a large number of recipes for nuts in a nutshell, which can be very different from each other. But almost all involve kneading shortbread dough in butter or margarine. As already mentioned, boiled condensed milk is mainly used as a filling. But you can take any jam, jam, jam, thick cream. In this case, the halves of the cookies can be glued together with sugar syrup.

You can put pieces of fruits, nuts, candied fruits, and sweets inside.

The five fastest recipes for nuts in a nutshell:

There is such a serving in which the halves are filled with a beautiful filling and spread on a dish without gluing. Although the cookies don't look much like those nuts. But the scope for creativity is wider.