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🍽️ Classic Spitzbuben Cookies

105 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Preheat your oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Set it to fan mode.
  2. 2. Soften the butter at room temperature. Beat it with powdered sugar, vanilla sugar, salt, and lemon zest until creamy and smooth.
  3. 3. Add the egg yolk to the butter mixture and mix it well.
  4. 4. Sift the flour over the mixture. Knead the dough briefly until it just comes together.
  5. 5. Wrap the dough in cling film. Place it in the refrigerator for about one hour.
  6. 6. Take the dough out of the fridge. Roll it out on a floured surface to a thickness of about 3 millimeters.
  7. 7. Cut out many small cookies using a round cookie cutter (about 3 cm in diameter).
  8. 8. Take half of the round cookies. Use a small cutter to punch out numbers or letters from the center of each.
  9. 9. Place all cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake them in the preheated oven on the middle rack for about 12 minutes until golden brown.
  10. 10. Heat the apricot jam in a small saucepan until it is liquid. Pass it through a fine sieve to remove any lumps.
  11. 11. Brush the complete (not cut-out) cookies thinly with the warm jam.
  12. 12. Place the cookies with the cut-out designs on top of the jam-covered cookies. Press them down slightly.
  13. 13. Let the cookies cool completely so that the jam sets.
  14. 14. Lightly dust the finished Spitzbuben with powdered sugar before serving.

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