Red Currant Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 600 g flour
• 220 g sugar
• 18 g vanilla sugar (2 packages)
• 4 egg yolks
• 400 g butter, cold
• 150 ml strained red currant jam or 150 ml marmalade
• icing sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 f.
• 2 grease a baking sheet.
• 3 sift flour onto a pastry board and make a well in the centre.
• 4 add sugar, vanilla sugar and egg yolks to well.
• 5 mix a small amount of flour into the ingredients in the well to make a thick paste.
• 6 cut cold butter into small pieces over the flour mixture.
• 7 working quickly and starting from the centre, work all the ingredients together to make a smooth dough.
• 8 chill dough for 1/2 hour.
• 9 roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to a 3mm (1/8 ") thickness.
• 10 cut into 5 cm (2 ") rounds.
• 11 cut 3 small holes using a floured thimble, in half of the cut out rounds, or use a smaller cookie cutter to cut a hole in the centre (you can use linzer cookie cutters if you have them).
• 12 place on prepared baking and bake on middle rack of oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown.
• 13 cool cookies.
• 14 spread jam on the solid rounds and cover with the cut out rounds.
• 15 dust with the icing sugar while the cookies are still warm (easiest way is to dip cut out cookie into icing sugar before placing on top of jam layer.