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Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup icing sugar, sifted
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
- 2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1/2 cup Jam (you can use any flavour of jam)
- Extra flour to roll out the dough
- Extra icing sugar for dusting
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Instructions
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Preheat oven to 160°C. In a mixer, beat together butter, icing sugar, salt and vanilla until light and fluffy. Continuing with the mixer, add flour to the mixture until just combined. At this point, a ball of dough will begin to form.
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Remove dough from mixer, and knead with your hands until a full ball forms. Wrap in plastic wrap, and place in fridge for at least 30 minutes. This will allow the dough to harden so it’s easier to roll out.
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Roll out dough with a rolling pin, adding extra flour to your rolling surface and rolling pin if dough begins to stick. Roll out to 1/4 inch thickness.
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Using 3 inch circle cookie cutter, cut out circle shapes, rerolling and cutting scraps.
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Using 1 1/2 inch Christmas cookie cutter, cut out shape in center of half of the circle cookies.
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Arrange whole and cutout cookies on parchment-lined baking sheet.
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Bake on top and bottom racks, rotating and switching pans halfway through, until edges are light golden, about 20 minutes.
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Remove cookies from the oven and let them cool.
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Spread jam over bottom of each whole cookie. Dust icing sugar over cutout cookies. Place on cookie with jam filling, sugar side up.
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