Spitzbuben (Swiss Jam Cookies) - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 cup sugar
    1 1/4 cups butter (or margarine)
    2 1/4 cups ground blanched almonds (may be called almond meal at the store)
    2 teaspoons vanilla flavoring
    3 1/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
    fruit jam (flavor of your choice, but make sure there are no fruit chunks in it)
    confectioners' sugar
    white of 1 egg
Preparation
    Beat the sugar and butter together until light and fluffy.
    Beat in the almond meal and vanilla flavouring and the white of 1 egg.
    Add the flour and knead until smooth.
    Chill dough in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.
    Preheat over to 325 degrees.
    Roll out the dough on a lightly floured cutting board to the thickness of 1/8\"-1/4\" (the thinner the dough, the better the cookie).
    Cut with small round, star, or diamond-shaped cookie cutters.
    Use a smaller cookie cutter to cut a \"window\" in half the cookies (these will be the top of the cookie sandwiches).
    Place all the cookies on lightly buttered and floured cookie sheets.
    Bake for 12-15 minutes, until golden.
    Remove cookies from the baking sheet and let cool.
    Spread the cookies without a \"window\" with fruit jam.
    Coat the cookies with \"windows\" in confectioners' sugar, and then place on top of the cookies with fruit jam.

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