Red Currant Cookies
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 f.
- Grease a baking sheet.
- Sift flour onto a pastry board and make a well in the centre.
- Add sugar, vanilla sugar and egg yolks to well.
- Mix a small amount of flour into the ingredients in the well to make a thick paste.
- Cut cold butter into small pieces over the flour mixture.
- Working quickly and starting from the centre, work all the ingredients together to make a smooth dough.
- Chill dough for 1/2 hour.
- Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to a 3mm (1/8 ") thickness.
- Cut into 5 cm (2 ") rounds.
- 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).
- Place on prepared baking and bake on middle rack of oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown.
- Cool cookies.
- Spread jam on the solid rounds and cover with the cut out rounds.
- 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.
Nutrition & Diet Analysis (per serving)
831
kcal
42% DV
Protein
Fat
Carbs
* % Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet (FDA 2020).