Description
Beautiful traditional Croatian cookies!
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups (300 g) all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup (60 g) cornstarch
- 3/4 cup (90 g) powdered sugar
- 210 g butter, cold, cut in cubes
- 0.3 cups (60 g) ground hazelnuts or walnuts
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- marmalade plus powdered sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Whisk together flour, cornstarch, powdered sugar and ground nuts.
- Rub cold butter (cut into cubes) into the mixture. Add egg yolks and vanilla, make dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- On a floured surface, roll out dough-thin. You can also roll it out between two sheets of plastic wrap. That way you won’t need to dust the bottom and top with flour and your rolling pin won’t stick to the dough. Cut out shapes with cookie cutters (stars, flours, circles). Make sure to cut out circle in the middle of half of cookies. These parts will be your top, and the ones without the cut out middle will be the bottom. Transfer carefully on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Preheat oven to 200 C. Bake for 5-6 minutes. They should stay light colored.
- While hot, dust top parts (with cut out middle) with powdered sugar. Let cool completely.
- Brush some marmalade on the bottom of each cookie, cover with top part. Marmalade will make them stick together.
- These cookies keep well for weeks. Store in cool place.
- Prep Time: 1 hour 15 mins
- Cook Time: 5 mins