Butter Walnut Biscuits with Lemon Cream

If you have wondered what to accompany your coffee and you are fed up with ready-made biscuits, this is the right recipe.

Ingredients:

1 cup of softened butter
¾ cup of sugar
1 egg
1-2 packages vanilla
1-2 tsp grated lemon rind
2 ½ cup of flour
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
1 cup of finely ground walnuts
powdered sugar


Ingredients for the cream:

6 levelled tbsp softened butter
2 eggs
2 yolks
2 tsp grated lemon rind
2/3 cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 cup of sugar
1 tbsp semolina/vanilla-flavoured or natural/

Method:

Lemon Cream:
In a bowl, cream butter and sugar for about 4-5 min. Add eggs and egg yolks one at a time. Beat for 2-3 min. Stir in lemon rind, lemon juice and semolina. Pour the mixture in a pot and keep over low heat. Stir constantly until it gets smooth. It takes 15 min. to thicken. Do not bring the mixture to the boil. Allow to cool down and place in the fridge covered with foil.
Cream butter and sugar. Add 1 egg, vanilla and lemon rind. Mix sifted flour, baking soda and salt. Stir flour in the mixture. Blend well. Cover the dough with foil and keep in the fridge for about 2 hours. Roll out 2/3/-cm sheet. Cut out biscuit shapes, half of them with a hole in the middle. Arrange on slightly greased baking paper. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 C for about 10 min. or until golden brown. Allow to cool down. Spread mixture on a biscuit and top it with another one. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. At first the biscuits are hard but they soften up in a few days when the cream is absorbed. Keep in the fridge.

Bon appetit!