Hazelnuts square-shaped cookies

 

This recipe is special for me as the main ingredient are hazelnuts.
My father picked them up around Nebrodi hills, in the province of Messina (my hometown) and that he sent to me.
They arrived to me already shelled one by one...at the least I had to prepare a recipe in his honor.
I love simple dishes...so it had to be easy and without any effort.

Ingredients:

100 g cut up margarine
100 g fine corn flour (fioretto type in Italy)
50 g corn starch
a pinch of salt
100 g vanilla- flavoured sugar fruit (it's enough to put a vanilla bean already used inside the sugar fruit jar . In this way you will have it always and problem solved!)
1 egg
4 tablespoons lactose-free milk
100 g half-cut hazelnuts

Preparation:
I preheat the oven at 180°(low temperature)
I prepare a square baking pan and I cover with greaseproof paper.
I sift the flour, the starch in a bowl, adding salt and mixing by hand  the margarine.
The dough now is nubby.
Then I add the sugar fruit and I mix well.
Last the beaten egg, the milk and the hazelnuts. Mixing well up to the dough is soft.
I pour it in a baking pan covered by greaseproof paper and I flatten the surface with a cake-slice.
I bake for 25 minutes.
I let it cool down out of the oven for 10 minutes and I lift the edges up by the cake-slice.
I turn it upside down a cutting board and I cut the square-shaped cookies.

Thank you Dad! Your hazelnuts are delicious!