Red Current Cookies

Ingredients

• 600 g flour
• 220 g sugar
• 18 g vanilla sugar (2 packages)
• 4 egg yolks
• 400 g butter, cold

Filling

• 150 ml strained red currant jam or marmalade

Decoration

• icing sugar

Directions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 350 f.

2. 2

   Grease a baking sheet.

3. 3

   Sift flour onto a pastry board and make a well in the centre.

4. 4

   Add sugar, vanilla sugar and egg yolks to well.

5. 5

   Mix a small amount of flour into the ingredients in the well to make a thick paste.

6. 6

   Cut cold butter into small pieces over the flour mixture.

7. 7

   Working quickly and starting from the centre, work all the ingredients together to make a smooth dough.

8. 8

   Chill dough for 1/2 hour.

9. 9

   Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to a 3mm (1/8 ") thickness.

10. 10

    Cut into 5 cm (2 ") rounds.

11. 11

    Cut 3 small holes using a floured thimble, in half of the cut out rounds.

12. 12

    Place on prepared baking and bake on middle rack of oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown.

13. 13

    Cool cookies.

14. 14

    Spread jam on the solid rounds and cover with the cut out rounds.

15. 15

    Dust with the icing sugar while the cookies are still warm.