Cinnamon Bredeles Alsacien/Cinnamon Alsacien Butter Cookies

Bredeles Alsacien, i tasted this cookies while i went to celebrate christmas in Strasbourg, capital of Alsace region, i didnt noticed the ingredients when i tasted this cookies as they were very tasty i thought i can search for the recipe later,but while searching for traditional cookies for Meeta's Monthly Mingle - Spiced Cookies, i thought of making this cookies, as they suit prefectly for the event...usually they r prepared with 4 spices like cardamom, cinnamon, ginger n cloves r simply without any spices, here i tried them sterday with cinnamon powder, my fav spice n they turned out really tasty, its quite simple to make them..with almonds n walnuts this traditional butter cookies of Alsace tastes really delicious..

1no Egg (yellow yolk)
3/4cup All purpose flour
1/4cup Almonds + Walnuts pieces
100g Butter ( room temperature)
1tsp Cinnamon powder
1/2cu Sugar
pinch of Salt

Preheat the oven at 350F...Beat the yellow yolk of egg with sugar n salt until they turn soft, add the butter, meanwhile grind both the almonds, walnut pieces into fine powder..add the all purpose flour n cinnamon powder to the butter n sugar mixture slowly, also add the grounded powder n knead them as soft dough..

Dust the dough with all purpose flour n roll them with rolling pin, with cookies cutter cut them as any shape as desire..Bake them in middle rack for 10 minutes r else until the turn slightly brown..

Decorate the cookies as per ur preference...i decorated them with confectioner's sugar mixed with water...