Holiday Star Cookies with Jam

• Vegetarian

• Refrigerated

  • 1 Egg yolk
  • 2 Eggs

• Condiments

  • 500 g Butter or margarine
  • 1 Your favourite jam

• Baking & Spices

  • 2 tsp Baking powder
  • 500 g Caster sugar
  • 1 Icing sugar
  • 1000 g Plain flour

• Nuts & Seeds

  • 1 Vanilla seeds of 1 pod

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Ingredients

• 500g Butter or Margarine
• 500g Caster Sugar
• Vanilla Seeds of 1 pod
• 2 Eggs
• 2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1000g Plain Flour
• 1 Egg Yolk (for pastry brush)
• Icing Sugar
• Filing:
• Your Favourite Jam

Directions

• 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.