Christmas Cookies

Christmas Cookies                                                                        
( This recipe by Angie from Rockuille Centre, NY )           

ingredients:

200g butter, softened at room temperature
2 eggs
100g of milk
110g of sugar
½ cup chopped walnuts
½ cup chopped candied orange
A teaspoon of vanilla extract
2 cups flour (220g)
½ teaspoon of baking soda
1 pinch of salt
other:
sugar crystals



Mix in a bowl with electric mixer the butter with the sugar, add egg yolks, milk to wire, until the mixture is frothy. (20 minutes at medium speed). Preheat oven to 300 F (150 C).
In another bowl, mix the orange peel, chopped nuts, flour and baking soda.
Add this mixture to the previous year. Mix with a spatula silicon.
In a baking sheet lined with parchment paper with a spoon to have small amounts of dough.  Spacing the cookies from each other.
Beat the egg whites lightly. Brush the biscuits with the compound.
Finally, sprinkle the surface of the cookies with sugar crystals.
Bake for 15 minutes or until the cookies become golden. Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack.

Recipe of December/15.