Maple Walnut Shortbread Cookies
Maple walnut cookies have a warm maple flavor and lots of crunchy walnuts all wrapped up in a buttery shortbread dough!
Servings: 24 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup salted butter at room temperature
- 1/2 cup maple sugar, (substitute light brown or granulated if you like.)
- 1/2 tsp pure maple extract, optional
- 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- sugar for rolling cookie edges, optional
Instructions
- Line baking pan with parchment paper.
- Cream the butter and the sugar together until well combined, scraping down the bowl as needed to get everything incorporated. Beat in the extract.
- Whisk together the flour and cornstarch. Blend them into the butter and sugar, until it forms a dough.
- Fold in the walnuts and make sure you get them well distributed in the dough.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured suface and bring together into a smooth disk. Gently roll out to about 1/3" thick. Cut out cookies and, if desired, roll the edges in sugar. Transfer to your lined cookie sheet, leaving 2 inches between each one.
- Preheat the oven to 350F. Refrigerate the cookies for 15 minutes while you clean up.
- I bake my cookies in 2 batches. Bake for about 15-20 minutes. Baking on the shorter end will result in a softer cookie, while ones baked longer will be crunchier.
- Cool for 2 minutes on the baking sheet, then cool completely on a rack. If you like you can roll the warm cookie edges again in sugar for a super sparkly look.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 cookie · Calories: 155 kcal · Carbohydrates: 13 g · Protein: 2 g · Fat: 11 g · Saturated Fat: 5 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 3 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 2 g · Trans Fat: 0.3 g · Cholesterol: 20 mg · Sodium: 62 mg · Potassium: 47 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 4 g · Vitamin A: 237 IU · Vitamin C: 0.1 mg · Calcium: 13 mg · Iron: 1 mg
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although The View from Great Island attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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