Ingredients

• 3 cups - maida
• 1.5 cups - powder sugar
• 3 - egg yolk and 1 egg white (reserve the balance 2 egg whites for coating)
• 1/2 cup - butter
• For decoration:
• Crushed cashews and cherries, half chopped

How to Make Butter Nuts

• Cream butter and sugar till fluffy.
• Add in the well beaten egg.
• Add little of the flour and make a nice soft dough
• Make small balls of the dough (approx. 2 cm diameter)
• Flatten one side of the ball and keep this as the base.
• Roll the rounded side of the ball in the beaten egg white thereafter roll this into the crushed cashews.
• Place this on a greased baking tray leaving spac