Ingredients
Scale
- 500 g Butter or Margarine
- 500 g Caster Sugar
- Vanilla Seeds of 1 pod
- 2 Eggs
- 2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1000 g Plain Flour
- 1 Egg Yolk (for pastry brush)
- Icing Sugar
- Filing:
- Your Favourite Jam
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 200 degree C and line a baking tray with grease proof paper.
- Add all the ingredients (except the fillings and the icing sugar) into a bowl. Use your finger tips to crumble the butter and dry ingredients together and then knead into a dough. Cling film and leave in the fridge for 1 hour.
- Roll out evenly on a floured surface and use cookie cutters to cut circles into the dough.
- Then cut mini hole in the middle of half of the circles using a mini star cutter if you have it or a circular one if not.
- Bake in your preheated oven for 5-8 minutes and remove then allow to cool.
- Take one of your cookie pieces without a hole and place jam in the centre. Then place one of the cookies with a hole on top and press down. Repeat for all cookies and then sieve on some icing sugar.