Easy Birds Nest Cookies

I needed to bake…. I wanted to bake…. and I had a craving for Birds Nest Cookies.  So I went looking at recipe’s and then blended a few to come up with my own!

Dessert tonight – I wonder if there will be any left tomorrow

Here is my easy recipe – it makes about 2 doz – depending on size of cookie!  LOL!  I only got 20!

1. Preheat oven to 350º and lightly grease cookie sheet
2. before starting dough finely chop 1 cup walnuts and place into a bowl
3. in a small bowl beat one egg with 1 tbsp. of  milk
4. place walnuts and egg mixture to the side until the dough is formed

• 1 cup soft butter
• 2/3 cup demara brown sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
• cream butter, sugar and vanilla together until soft
• add 2 cups unbleached flour to creamed mixture and mix until soft dough forms
• roll into approx. 1 inch balls
• dip each ball into egg mixture and then roll in walnuts
• place on greased cooked sheet, approx. 1/2 inch apart; and form a well in the center of each cookie with your thumb
• spoon approx. 1/2 tsp jam into each well

Bake in 350º for 15 to 18 min – cool on sheet 5 min and then move to cooling rack.

Enjoy!

Lynette