Triangular Dumplings

Description
In Romanian: Cornulete

Ingredients

 * 8 oz/250 g lard or butter,
 * 3/4 cup confectioner's sugar,
 * 3 yolks,
 * 1 whole egg,
 * 1 beaten egg white,
 * 2-3 tablespoons ground walnuts,
 * flour as needed,
 * 4 tablespoons water,
 * 1 teaspoon baking powder,
 * vanilla

Directions

 * 1) Melt the butter or lard. When it is slightly warm, add Sugar and cream together.
 * 2) Then add the yolks one by one, then the whole egg, water, vanilla, baking powder.
 * 3) Mix well and then add flour, knead to make a medium soft dough.
 * 4) Cut little pieces of dough and shape into triangular dumplings.
 * 5) Place the dumplings on the baking sheet leaving considerable distance between them as they increase in size.
 * 6) Wash each of them with whipped egg white and sprinkle each with ground walnuts.
 * 7) When you take them out of the oven, roll each one into confectioner's sugar.