The recipe presented here today is a recipe by a family friend. It is easy and quick to prepare. Because of the richness from the nuts, nutty triangles are a great afternoon treat in the fall.
Ingredients:
Baking sheet
Some grease
Some extra flour
Parchment paper
Pastry dough
125 g soft butter or margarine or 1 stick
125 g sugar
250 g flour
1 egg
2 packages vanilla sugar or some vanilla aroma
1 leveled teaspoon baking powder
Topping:
400 g nut flour
4 eggs
200 g sugar
Decoration:
Baking chocolate that melts
Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius (350 F).
2. Prepare pastry dough: Combine flour and baking powder in a bowl. Add butter or margarine, sugar, vanilla sugar or vanilla aroma and egg. Using the knead hooks of an electric hand mixer to form a dough. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and chill for about 30 min in refrigerator.
3. Prepare topping: In another bowl mix eggs and sugar until the sugar has dissolved. Stir in nut flour.
4. Grease a baking sheet. Remove pastry dough from refrigerator, place on baking sheet and roll out flat using a rolling pin. If the dough is sticky sprinkle some extra flour on top while rolling it out flat.
5. Pour nut mixture on top of pastry dough, and spread evenly.
6. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius (350 F) for about 25 min. The surface of the nut mixture should be light golden in color.
7. Remove from oven and let cool a bit. While the pastry is still warm, cut squares of equal size, the cut the squares in half, so you have two triangles from each square. Let pastry fully cool down.
8. Melt chocolate in a microwave or in a bowl over hot water. Dip the edges of the long side of the triangle into the chocolate, let extra chocolate drip of and place on parchment paper. When the chocolate has dried the nutty triangles are ready to be served.
Comments:
1. Nuts: Nutty triangles are traditionally made with hazelnuts because these are the cheapest nuts in Germany. However, because my parents have a walnut tree in the garden we've been making them from walnuts instead. It's a different nut flavor. I've never tried making them from peanuts or pecan nuts, but I don't see why it shouldn't work. The flavor will be different, though. Since I am a big fan of almonds I am wondering what they'd taste like made with almonds. Another thing I need to try out in the future.
2. Nutty triangles can be prepared ahead of time. They can be stored in a cookie box for weeks, well. If they last that long...
3. I cut the squares about 6 x 6 cm (a little more than 2 x 2 inches), then cut them in half for the triangles. I like this smaller size a lot. They look like little pralines, very decorative on a buffet table or when you're having a party, and it's a great size for kids. In German bakeries these are more than twice the size than mine, so that is more a full meal than a snack.
4. As I had pointed out there are many variations of this. Here are some:
For people who have an egg allergy: Exchange the egg in the pastry dough for a 1-2 tablespoons of milk or water. Instead of using eggs in the topping, use butter.
Some recipes put a thin layer (3 tablespoons) of jam (apricot) on top of the pastry dough before putting down the nut mixture. This will make the triangles a little more moist, but alters the flavor.
Instead of using nut flour you can use shredded coconut, and make coconut triangles.
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