I needed something sweet. And I needed it pronto. Enter vanilla walnut "shortbread" cookies. I saved this recipe a few weeks ago as I had a giant bag of walnuts and being of fine British stock, I obviously love shortbread. Izzy and I tossed everything in the food processor and 30 minutes later, we had cookies. These cookies are raw and dairy free and only FIVE ingredients (one of which is salt so that hardly counts...though it does make them that much more delicious!
These would be amazing as-is but as I eyed my cabinet trying to locate the vanilla, I spied the lemon curd I had purchased for these lemon and basil icebox cakes. The basil was all used up in a mammoth batch of pesto though. And the ginger cookies, well, they went the way of the dinosaur once the kids discovered them. I'll come back to that recipe for sure though. I adore a good icebox cake and lemon + basil + ginger sounds just about perfect (that sounds like a mighty fine cocktail too...that must exist, right?)
So, a spoonful smeared atop the cookie became the best little sweet bite of food I've had in awhile. I've never had lemon curd. WHY have I never had lemon curd? The perfect addition to the sweet, salty cookies. So, make that SIX ingredient cookies ready in just over 30 minutes. If you have some walnuts in your pantry, you should go make these. Now.
(And oh crap, they make lime curd too?? Where in the world have I been?)
yum!
ReplyDeleteLemon curd is awesome on pancakes with blueberries. Or anything with blueberries, actually.
Yum! Not sure if you care... but curds usually have butter in them. Just an FYI, in case it matters to you. :)
ReplyDeleteThese sound delish!
ReplyDeleteyum! thanks for sharing!!!
ReplyDeleteI am going to try these! And I don't think you can claim British stock and ignorance about lemon curd in the same post. Hahahaha. (We are rarely without lemon curd around here...)
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