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Brazil Nut Shortbread

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Prep
15 minutes
Cook
1 hour
Total
1 hour 15 minutes
Servings
8 wedges

Categories

  • Cookies
  • Dessert
  • Brazilian
  • European
  • Scottish
  • South American
  • Baking

Dietary

  • Vegetarian

Allergens

  • Tree nuts
  • Milk
  • Wheat

A really good, really rich South Amercian cookie, great with coffee or chocolate. From Leith's Latin American Cooking.

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Equipment

Oven, baking sheet, parchment paper, 6-inch flan ring or tart form, rolling pin, fork, wire rack

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup brazil nut
  • 1/4 lb unsalted butter, softened
  • 6 tablespoons brown sugar, packed
  • 3/4 cup flour
  • 3 tablespoons rice flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 325 degrees F.

  2. Grind the Brazil nuts finely.

  3. Beat the butter until fluffy, add the sugar and beat until fluffy again--do beat adequately.

  4. Sift in the flours and the nuts and work to a smooth dough.

  5. Cover a baking sheet with parchment.

  6. place a 6" flan ring or tart form on the cookie sheet to use as a guide.

  7. Press the dough onto the sheet inside the ring to form a neat 6" inch circle.

  8. Remove the ring and flatten the dought slightly with a rolling pin.

  9. Prick the circle of dough with a fork and score it into eight wedges.

  10. Sprinkle with a little granulated sugar and bake for forty minutes.

  11. Remove from the oven and cut along the score lines and leave to cool for two minutes.

  12. Lift onto a rack and cool completely.

  13. If they don't get immediately eaten, store in an airtight container.

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Source: https://www.food.com/recipe/brazil-nut-shortbread-170541

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