Walnut Cookie (Oreshek) Maker 16 nut by PetriStor

This oreshki mold is a must-have if you love making traditional walnut-shaped cookies! It’s well-made, durable, and heats evenly, so the cookies come out perfectly shaped and golden every time. The size of the molds is just right—not too small, and not overly large—making them great for filling with caramel, dulce de leche, or your favorite cream. It does take a little practice to get the amount of dough just right, but once you do, it’s smooth sailing. Cleanup is also easy, which is a bonus after a big baking session.

Very happy with this purchase. Got pleasantly surprised that the pan was made in Ukraine. After a couple trial runs have to admit that the key is definitely to stick to the recipe provided with the pan precisely! After trying to tweak it, I gave up, used the said recipe and got perfect results. Made balls using exactly 1/2tsp of dough = 4.5-5g each. Cooked for 2mins on one side and 1.5mins on the other using setting 4 out of 10 on the gas stove. The full recipe yielded roughly 170 halves = 85 walnuts in my case and required 2 cans of dulce de leche / cooked condensed milk to assemble. It took me roughly 3 hours from start to finish. I am pretty sure that the blank residue will be there only if you don’t wash the pan well enough. It was definitely there before the wash (which is normal for this kind of material), but hasn’t reappeared after. Also, aluminum marks very easily in production, so some surface scratches on a new pan are to be expected. They don’t affect the quality or performance of the item, and it’s very funny to see other comments about them 🙃

It works. Lol. Pros: very easy to use and quick baking. Cons: you have to find the perfect size of the dough balls for this. Keep an eye on it- cookies can get too dark too fast It comes with a recipe and instructions. I followed both and here are my two cents. I think it’s best to preheat the waffle makes before greasing for a minute or two on Med low heat, if you grease it before, like the instructions say, the oil will start to burn. I liked the recipe. Easy and no fuss, tasty, so I would recommend you try it too, and make sure you make the right size pieces ready to go. It took me a few tries to get them right. Instructions say a teaspoon.... no, don’t even try. I made them 9g, Too much. They became one big weird waffle. I then started Making them 4-5 g - still not happy. Too much excess dough and butter, burning, 2-3 g are not big enough to cover the surface area. 3-4 are perfect. The shells are pretty small in this waffle maker so find a perfect size of dough for you but I liked this mold a lot. Now , to cooking: they cook damn fast so I kept it on low gas so I had time to prepare the dough. After the first thirty seconds you don’t have to hold the handles together and can take a peek if they are gold on the outside and flip, to have them golden on the other side. You only need to grease the mold once, in the very beginning, they slide right off of the mold and the dough is high in fat so that won’t be a problem. And yeah, keep wiping the excess butter leaking from the waffle maker - it’s normal but it will smell and burn if you don’t

Handle broke during cooking. I burn my hand. It was second time I use it. Very poor quality

Nice

Over all good quality. Shifted a bit , had to hammer it back in place . Cooked evenly and dough didn’t stick to it. Very easy to use and clean.

I absolutely love it, it's exactly what I expected to get.

Smaller than ai thought, still makes the job