Walnut Hearts

Ingredients

• 200g butter
• 125g powdered sugar
• vanilla sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 60g walnuts, ground
• 300g flour
• 400g marzipan
• powdered sugar, for rolling out the marzipan
• apricot jam
• 400g dark couverture, bittersweet

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 150°C.
2. Knead the butter, powdered sugar, vanilla sugar, egg yolk, walnuts, and flour into a dough.
3. Chill the dough for 1 hour.
4. Roll out the dough, cut out hearts, and place them on a baking tray.
5. Bake the hearts.
6. Roll out the marzipan with powdered sugar and cut it into hearts.
7. Spread the baked hearts with apricot jam and top them with the marzipan hearts.
8. Coat the walnut hearts with couverture.