Nut pies

(24 pcs)

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Ingredients:

60 gr flour

60 gr butter

40 gr pine nuts, walnuts or

pecan nuts

1 tablespoon butter

175 ml sugar syrup

2 tablespoons brown sugar

extra:

2 12 mold muffin pans

oven

Preparation:

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Preheat the oven to 180°C/360°F (fan oven 160°C/310°F). Grease the muffin molds.

Sift the flour in a bowl and mix with the fingertips little lumps butter into the flour till the dough resembles bread crumbs. Make a ball on a flour dusted work area. Roll the dough to a 3 mm thick sheet. Cut 5-6 cm circles (with a glass) and place in the molds.

Put the chopped nuts in a pan and roast in 2-3 minutes golden brown. Let cool and divide over the molds.

Mix melted butter, sugar syrup and sugar in a bowl. Spoon the mixture over the nuts.

Bake the mini nut pies in 15 minutes golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes in the molds.

Garnish before serving optional with icing sugar.