Robin’s Nest Cookies (Share Your Mother’s Recipe Entry)

Robin's Nest Cookies (Share Your Mother's Recipe Entry)

Rachel StampflRachel
This is a family favorite shared from my Grandmother and Mother. They are a great holiday or anytime fun treat. I used to make them with my kids for Easter and Christmas. They are a pretty and tasty cookie we love to share with our family and friends. For several years I would make assorted cookie trays as gifts at Christmas time. My oldest daughter now gifts cookies!
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Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Course Dessert
Servings 3 Dozen

Equipment

  • 2 bowls
  • Measuring Cups
  • oven

Ingredients
  

  • 2½ Cups Sifted Reg Flour
  • 1 Cup Butter About 2 sticks
  • ½ Cup Firmly Packed Light Brown Sugar
  • 2 Eggs Separated
  • 1 ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1 ½ Cups Finely Chopped Walnuts ( I use Pecans or No Nuts)
  • 2 Tbsp Butter

Fondant

  • 2 Tbsp Butter
  • 3 Tbsp Corn Syrup Light
  • ½ Tsp Almond Extract
  • 2 Cups Confectioner's Sugar
  • Blue and Green Food Coloring Or coloring of Choice

Instructions
 

Cookie Dough

  • Sift flour in a separate bowl
  • Cream butter with brown sugar until fluffy & ligh in a medium sized bowl
  • Beat in Egg Yolks and Vanilla Extract
  • Stir in flour half at a time, blending well to make stiff dough
  • In a pie plate beat egg whites until foamy
  • Sprinkle nuts on waxed paper or paper plate
  • Take a teaspoonful of dough and roll into balls between the palms of hands
  • Roll each ball in the egg whites and then into the nuts coating entirely (if no nuts still roll in egg white)
  • Place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet and press a hollow in the center of each with fingertip
  • Bake in moderate oven at 350 degrees for 12 minutes or until firm & lightly golden
  • Remove from cookie sheets to a wire cooling rack
  • Cool completely and place a fondant egg in each nest

Fondant Eggs

  • Cream 2 Tbsp of Butter until soft in a small bowl
  • Stir in 3 Tbsp Corn Syrup, 1/2 teaspoon of Almond Extract & the 2 cups of sifted Confectioners' sugar until smooth
  • Knead in 2 drops of Blue food coloring & 1 drop of Green food coloring to tint Robin's eggs blue (I used many colors for Easter Cookies)
  • Pinch off Fondant, 1/2 teaspoon portions & roll into egg shapes between palms of hands
  • Place Fondant Egg in cookie center (nest).
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