Lemon Fruit Swirls
- 2 12 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into 1/2-inch slices
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 12 cup finely chopped dried apricot
- 12 cup finely chopped candied citron peel or 12 cup lemon peel
- 12 cup finely chopped candied red cherries
- 12 cup finely chopped walnuts
- parchment paper
- In a food processor, pulse together the flour sugar and salt to blend.
- Add in the butter slices and process into a coarse meal, as you would for a pie crust or shortbread.
- If you do not have a food processor you can do this by hand using a pastry blender.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the egg, vanilla, lemon peel, and lemon juice to blend.
- Add mixture to food processor or bowl with flour-butter mixture; whirl or stir until the dough forms a ball.
- Divide dough in half.
- Stir fruit and nuts into one half of the dough.
- Roll each half between sheets of cooking parchment into an even 8 by 16 inch rectangle, then stack the rectangles and chill until firm, about 2 hours.
- If this is too large to place in the fridge, roll out two 8 inch squares of each dough for a total of 4 sheets.
- Peel off the top sheet of parchment from each dough rectangle.
- Brush the plain dough very lightly with water.
- Place the sheet of fruit dough over the plain dough.
- Lightly press together to seal.
- Remove the top sheet of parchment.
- Trim the edges even.
- If necessary, let the dough warm just until pliable.
- Beginning with a long side, roll into a cylinder, pulling paper from dough as you roll.
- Discard parchment.
- If you rolled a full sized sheet, cut cylinder in half crosswise.
- Wrap each half in plastic wrap and freeze until firm, about 30 minutes, or up to 2 weeks.
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Unwrap half the dough at a time.
- Using a thin, sharp knife, cut into 1/8-inch-thick rounds.
- Place 1/2 inch apart on cooking parchment baking sheets.
- Bake cookies until pale golden, 12 to 14 minutes.
- Transfer cookies to racks to cool completely.
flour, sugar, salt, unsalted butter, egg, vanilla, lemon peel, lemon juice, apricot, candied citron, candied red cherries, walnuts, parchment paper
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/lemon-fruit-swirls-273872 (may not work)