Wet walnuts

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| name = Wet walnuts

| image = Shelled English Walnuts 2331px.jpg

| caption = Shelled walnuts

| alternate_name = Walnut topping

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| type = Dessert topping

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| main_ingredient = Walnuts, maple syrup or simple syrup

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Wet walnuts or just walnut topping is a dessert topping made from walnuts and maple syrup.{{cite book | last=Lebovitz | first=D. | title=The Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments | publisher=Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-60774-094-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LrkLFYNQzUwC&pg=PA198 | access-date=February 6, 2015 | page=198}} Sometimes simple syrup, corn syrup, sugar{{cite book | last=Perillo | first=J. | title=Homemade with Love: Simple Scratch Cooking from in Jennie's Kitchen | publisher=Running Press | year=2013 | isbn=978-0-7624-4723-7 | url=https://archive.org/details/homemadewithlove0000peri | url-access=registration | access-date=February 6, 2015 | page=[https://archive.org/details/homemadewithlove0000peri/page/233 233]}} or brown rice syrup is used instead of (or in combination with) the maple syrup. Wet walnut topping is similar in some respects to pralines, except that the walnuts are always served in syrup, rather than as individual pieces. Some commercial preparations of premade wet walnuts exist.{{cite book | last=Magazine | first=M.S.L. | title=The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The Original Classics | publisher=Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-307-45335-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N70mBdKAgB4C&pg=PA407 | access-date=February 6, 2015 | page=407}}

Wet walnuts are most commonly served with ice cream and as a sundae topping. They are often available as an ice cream topping at ice cream parlors in the United States.

Wet walnuts (United Kingdom) also refers to fresh walnuts which have not been dried for keeping. They are also called green walnuts. Fresh (wet) walnuts have been stated to pair well with some hard cheeses such as pecorino and Parmesan.{{cite book | last=Segnit | first=N. | title=The Flavor Thesaurus: A Compendium of Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing | year=2010 | isbn=978-1-60819-313-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zOkXAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT294 | access-date=February 6, 2015 | page=294}} Some foods are prepared using wet walnuts as a primary ingredient, such as mhammara dip.{{cite book | last=Saleh | first=N. | title=New Flavours of the Lebanese Table | publisher=Ebury Publishing | year=2012 | isbn=978-1-4481-1876-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=olH8Y4cnGLoC&pg=PT100 | access-date=February 6, 2015 | page=100}}

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