Linzer Cookies –

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 2 egg yolks
• A pinch salt
• 200g cold butter
• 70g powdered sugar
• 2-5 tbsp cold water (optional)
• 100g jam (of your choice)
• 7oz cold butter
• 2.4oz powdered sugar
• 3.5oz jam (of your choice)
• Fridge
• Step 1 Place the flour, salt and sugar in to a food processor bowl, and pulse it couple of times
• Step 2 Add the cubed butter and pulse until you get a coarse mixture (similar to bread crumbs)
• Step 3 Add the egg yolks, one at a time. Pulse until it’s all well incorporated
• Step 4 If the dough is too dry then add 1 tbsp of cold water at a time. Pulse before adding another tbsp of water. If you add too much and it becomes too wet then add 2 tbsp of flour
• Step 5 Divide the dough in half. Roll the dough to around 2-3mm thickness. You can always refrigerate before rolling out if it is too soft
• Step 6 Use a star-shaped cookie cutter to cut shapes. Use a smaller cutter to cut windows in to half the cookies to make the top star
• Step 7 Place in a pre-heated oven at 175 C for 10-12 min, or until the edges are just barely beginning to turn golden
• Step 8 Leave to cool completely, then spread jam on to the bottom stars, and top with the a second cookie, and dust with powdered sugar