Walnut Pastry Bites

Hand made from scratch, delicate and fragrant walnut pastry bites that are loved by everyone in the family.

Ingredients for the dough:

250 ml warm buttermilk
70 g sugar
1 tsp salt
1 package dry yeast
2 eggs
50g melted butter
30g cornstarch
500-600 g flour

Ingredients for filling:

150 g walnuts
150 g sugar
1 egg yolk
1 egg white
1 tbsp milk

Step 1

Mix together the warm buttermilk, eggs, sugar, melted butter and yeast.

Step 2

Add corn starch, salt and half of the flour. Mix again.

Step 3

Add the rest of the flour keeping kneading the dough for 5 minutes. Form it into a ball and transfer into the a bowl. Cover with a towel or plastic wrap and put into a warm place, such as microwave or oven and let it rise for 1.5 hours.

Step 4

After 1.5 hours gently knead the dough, cover it again and leave for another half an hour. When the dough rises for the second time, it’s ready!

Step 5

Mix together chopped walnuts and sugar. Separate the egg into egg yolk and egg white and add 1 tbsp of milk to the egg yolk. Mix it together.

Step 6

Split the dough in half and roll one of the parts into 1/4 inch thick then cover it with the egg white.

Step 7

Sprinkle half of the walnuts mixture on top living an inch from the edge.

Step 8

Roll the dough into a big roll. Do the same with the other half of the dough.

Step 9

Cover the rolls with a towel and let it rest for 15 minutes.

Step 10

Cover each roll with the egg yolk mixture and cut into pieces.

Step 11

Transfer the pastries to the baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until golden-brown.

Notes:

Keep the cooled pastries in the closed container.
The next day worm the pastries in the microwave for 10 seconds and they will be like freshly baked again!