Last week around this time, I was making cookies to take to our
little EST meeting the next day. As I made
a small mistake, I didn't have time to blog the recipe so here goes...
This is what you need:
- 125g flour
- 80g butter
- 50g powdered sugar
- 10g vanilla sugar
- A pinch of salt
- 1 egg yolk (optional)
- Little bit of crystal sugar (optional)
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Put the flour in a bowl, cut the butter in little pieces and add to the flour. Then add the powdered, vanilla sugar & a pinch of salt. Kneed it to a firm dough. It will need lots of kneeding so that it all sticks together.
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Roll it, put it in plastic foil and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
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Then unroll the dough. It needs to be plus minus a centimeter thick.
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Press with cookie cutters some shapes out of the dough.
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This is optional. It gives the cookies a nice brown, yummy crust but I found that it also deforms the shape of the cookies while baking.
Put the sides of the cookies into the egg yolk and then put it in the sugar.
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Put all the cookies on a tray and make sure you leave enough room.
Put in a preheated oven for 15 minutes at 180 °C
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Tada! :) Enjoy!