Cookie recipes #3 - Linzer wreaths

Still from Granny's classics

Ingredients version 1:
200 gr ground walnuts
200 gr butter or margarine
200 gr sugar
350 gr white sugar
1 eggyolk
vanilla-flavoured, powedered sugar
some roughly cut walnuts

Ingredients version 2:
200 gr ground almonds
250 gr butter or margarine
200 gr sugar
350 gr white sugar
1 eggyolk
vanilla-flavoured, powedered sugar
some almond splitters

How to make it:

Mix the ingredients, make a dough, doll it out about 3 mm thick and cut circles of about 5 cm in diameter. There should be an even number of these circles

Cut a hole of about 1 cm in the middle of half ot these circles. Smear one side with eggwhite and press it into the walnut or almond splitters before baking. (Walnut pieces should be mixed with sugar.)

Bake them on 200°C until they get a light, golden-brown colour

When it has cooled a little, smear the parts without a hole with jam and glue a part with a hole to each. You can put a cherry into the hole as decoration. Sprinkle the cookies with vanilla-favouored icing sugar.

Cookie recipes #4 - Linzer wreaths, without nuts

This is the version I actually baked this year... actually, half of it. I give you the ingredients for a full portion, for roughly 2 baking tins.

Ingredients:
420 gr white flour
280 gr butter or margarine
140 gr sugar
the juice and the ground peel of 1/2 lemon
2 eggyolks
some red jam to glue them together
(recipe says red currant; I used sour cherry jam with a bit of rum, it worked like a charm)
icing sugar to sprinkle them

How to make it:
- Mix ingredients (save the jam and the icing sugar, of course). Put the dought into the fridge for at least one hour.
- Roll out the dough 4 mm thick. Cut out flower-shaped cookies; there should be an even number of them. Cut a hole in the middle of one half of them.
- Bake them in the pre-heated oven at 200°C until they're light yellow. Let them cool.
- Heat up the jam, add a bit of rum and glue two cookies together: one with a hole and one wiithout.
- You can keep them in a tin box for several weeks.