Triangular Dumplings

Description
In Romanian: Cornulete

Ingredients

 * 8 oz / 250 g lard or butter
 * ¾ 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.
 * 2) When it is slightly warm, add sugar and cream together.
 * 3) Then add the yolks one by one, then the whole egg, water, vanilla, baking powder.
 * 4) Mix well and then add flour, knead to make a medium soft dough.
 * 5) Cut little pieces of dough and shape into triangular dumplings.
 * 6) Place the dumplings on the baking sheet leaving considerable distance between them as they increase in size.
 * 7) Cook at 350 °F for 13 – 15 minutes.
 * 8) Wash each of them with whipped egg white and sprinkle each with ground walnuts.
 * 9) When you take them out of the oven, roll each one into confectioner's sugar.