Cookies "Berries in a snowdrift"

You cannot buy these cookies at the store. This is not even a cookie, but a whole cake: light and airy, fresh and tasty!

Ingredients

• Flour - 100 g
• Sugar - 30 g
• Butter - 30 g
• Baking powder - 1/2 tsp.
• Egg - 1 yolk
• Walnuts (chopped) - 20 g
• Blackcurrant - about 1/2 cup (I took frozen blackcurrants and fresh blueberries)
• For the meringue:
• Egg white - 1 pc.
• Powdered sugar or fine sugar - 60-70 g

Directions

1. Carefully separate the white from the yolk.
2. Transfer the protein to a separate bowl and set it aside, it will be useful to us later.
3. Beat egg yolk with sugar in a bowl, add softened butter.
4. Sift flour with baking powder and add to mixture. Mix well.
5. Add crushed nuts there and knead again. Can be made without nuts!
6. Roll out the dough into a layer 1-1.5 cm thick and form circles out of it using a mold, or divide the dough into equal balls and make cakes from them. Put the mugs on a baking sheet and put them in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 10 minutes.
7. We make meringues, beat egg whites with sugar well
8. While the base of our cookie is baking, we will make a meringue from the remaining protein (if you want a large protein "cap" on top of the cookie, then you need to take the protein from two eggs). Beat the whites into a stiff foam and add sugar or icing sugar a little bit. Whisk until firm peaks!
9. Well, our base has already been baked!
10. Put the berries on the cooked cookies, put the meringue on top
11. Remove it from the oven and put the currants on it. Gently transfer the meringue to a pastry bag and place on cookies with berries. Smear it lightly over the cookies so that the meringue sticks to it, otherwise, when you try to bite the finished cookie, you can lose its "hat".
12. We bake cookies "Berries in a snowdrift" in the oven, serve cooled
13. Place the cookies prepared in this way in the oven and bake at 110 degrees for 40-50 minutes (depending on the characteristics of your oven). Take out, let cool.
14. The result: a crispy, almost unsweetened base with nuts, a juicy slightly sour berry and a delicate meringue give, in the end, a perfect combination!