These Walnut cookies with cinnamon are super delicious! With chocolate ganache filling. Perfect for christmas.
Course cookies, xmas
Cuisine vegan
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 20 minutesminutes
Total Time 30 minutesminutes
Author Klaraslife
Ingredients
dough
50gwalnutsfinely chopped
100gxylitol or light brown sugar
280gflour
170gvegan buttersoft
60gdark chocolatefinely chopped / grated, vegan
1pinchof salt
1/2tspcinnamon
Chocolate ganache
120gunsweetened plain almond milk1/2 cup
230gdark or semisweet chocolate, chopped1 1/4 cups
113gvegan butter softened
50-100gpowdered sugar
Instructions
Dough
Beat sugar and butter until creamy. Add flour, cinnamon, chocolate, walnuts and knead with hands to a smooth dough.
Place in a wrapping film and allow to cool for 4 h. Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Roll on a floured working surface. Cut out cookies and bake for 8-10 minutes.
Allow to cool.
chocolate ganache
Add chopped chocolate in a mixing bowl.Add almond milk in a small saucepan and heat until simmering.
Pour over the mixing bowl and don’t touch for 2 minutes so it can melt.
Stir gently with a wooden spoon to incorporate, then add softened butter and cover. Let rest untouched for another 10 minutes to meld. Stir. Add the ganache in the refrigerator and chill 1 hour.
Use your mixer to beat the mixture together. Then add 50 g powdered sugar, mix again.
Spread a cookie with ganache and place the other cookie on top. Continue until all cookies are used up.
Notes
You can use a piping bag for place the ganache on the cookies.