Viennese Walnut Cookies

Ingredients:

1/2 c. butter
1/3 c. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 and 1/4 c. flour
1 and 1/3 c. finely chopped nuts

Directions:

Cream butter, sugar salt and vanilla. Blend in flour and nuts. Form
dough
into a ball and chill 30 minutes. Roll 1/4-inch thick and cut out into
shapes desired. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake in 350-degree
oven
10-12 minutes. Makes about 1 1/2 dozen cookies. (I have also rolled
them
into balls and pressed them on the cookie sheet.) When cookies are
cooled,
frost with Cream Cheese Frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting

Mix together...

3 ounces cream cheese
1 T. milk
2 and 1/2 c. confectioner's sugar
3/4 tsp. vanilla

Submitted by: Margo Mulholland