Walnut Cookies with Chocolate Ganache
These Walnut cookies with cinnamon are super delicious! With chocolate ganache filling. Perfect for christmas.
Ingredients
dough
- 50 g walnuts finely chopped
- 100 g xylitol or light brown sugar
- 280 g flour
- 170 g vegan butter soft
- 60 g dark chocolate finely chopped / grated, vegan
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Chocolate ganache
- 120 g unsweetened plain almond milk 1/2 cup
- 230 g dark or semisweet chocolate, chopped 1 1/4 cups
- 113 g vegan butter softened
- 50-100 g powdered 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.