Linzer Cookies

• 1 cup butter softened
• 1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
• 3/4 granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3 cups (plus 1/2 cup) all purpose flour
• 1 cup ground almonds
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 inch of salt
• rose hip jam or other flavor
• icing sugar for dusting

1. Mix butter and sugar (white and brown) in bowl until creamy.Add 1 egg at the time, mixing well after each addition, then add vanilla.
2. Combine flour, salt and ground almonds in a bowl and add them to the butter mixture gradually until the dough it is hard enough to work with. If it is sticky, add the remaining 1/2 cup flour, then refrigerate it for 1 hr.
3. After refrigeration, roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to 1/8 inch (3 - 4 mm) thickness.
4. Cut out circles or Christmas tree shape cookies and half of them cut in the middle with a circle cutter.
5. Arrange them 1 inch apart in a greased cookie sheet and bake them for 12 minutes at 350F or 175 C degrees.
6. Let them cool down on the cookie sheet for about 5 minutes then you can spread them with jam . dust cookies with cut out centers with icing sugar and place on top of jam.
7. http://gabrielacuisine.ro/biscuiti-linzer/

butter, ubc, sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, ground almonds, baking powder, salt, rose hip, icing sugar

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/linzer-cookies-52656891 (may not work)