Title: Blue Cheese-Walnut Shortbread
Categories: Appetizers, Cookies
Yield: 1 Pan

1/3 c Walnuts; chopped
2 tb Granulated sugar
2 tb Confectioners sugar
1/2 c Butter; cut up
1/4 c Blue cheese; crumbled
1 1/4 c All-purpose flour

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

In the bowl of a food processor, chop together walnuts and sugars. Add
butter and blue cheese and blend just a couple of seconds, until a crumbly
consistency (don't let it form a ball). Add flour and pulse about 10-20
times. Pat into an 8-inch cake pan. Score with a knife into 8 to 12 wedges.
Bake at 325 degrees F for 15 minutes.

Remove from oven, deepen score with a knife, and return to oven. Bake at
325 degrees F for another 15 minutes, or until done. Cool on a rack.

Serve with fresh or poached pears, with a Sauterne.

Source: "The Complete Cookie" by Barry Bluestein and Kevin Morrisey
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #289

Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 01:14:41 +0000

From: Linda Place