Cookie recipe #7 - "Demel" stars

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Ingredients:
220 gr white flour
180 gr butter or margarine
110 gr sugar
1 egg
70 gr ground almonds
sugar-preserved cherries for the decoration

For the icing:
200 gr icing sugar
4 tablespoons of rum
1 tablespoon of vanilla-flavoured sugar
(personally, I always make them without the icing - not so sweet that way - but that's a matter of taste)

How to make it:
- Pre-heat the oven at 190°C
- Stir softened butter with the sugar a lot;
- Add the egg, the almonds and finally the flour and stir some more;
- Fill the dough into the cookie press and make small stars onto the baking paper.
- Decorate each cookie with half a cherry.
- Bake them for 10 minutes, until they get a light golden colour.
- Take them from the tin, let them cool.

For the icing, stur the ingredients until you get a thick liquid and smear it over the stars.

Yields about 50 cookies.