Red Currant Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

600 g flour
220 g sugar
18 g vanilla sugar (2 packages)
4 egg yolks
400 g butter, cold
Filling
150 ml strained red currant jam or 150 ml marmalade
Decoration
icing sugar

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 f.
Grease a baking sheet.
Sift flour onto a pastry board and make a well in the centre.
Add sugar, vanilla sugar and egg yolks to well.
Mix a small amount of flour into the ingredients in the well to make a thick paste.
Cut cold butter into small pieces over the flour mixture.
Working quickly and starting from the centre, work all the ingredients together to make a smooth dough.
Chill dough for 1/2 hour.
Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to a 3mm (1/8 \") thickness.
Cut into 5 cm (2 \") rounds.
Cut 3 small holes using a floured thimble, in half of the cut out rounds, or use a smaller cookie cutter to cut a hole in the centre (you can use linzer cookie cutters if you have them).
Place on prepared baking and bake on middle rack of oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown.
Cool cookies.
Spread jam on the solid rounds and cover with the cut out rounds.
Dust with the icing sugar while the cookies are still warm (easiest way is to dip cut out cookie into icing sugar before placing on top of jam layer.