Recipe: Christmas Short Bread Cookies (Spitzbuben)

1 Christmas Short Bread Cookies
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2 1/2 cups flour
1 cup butter
1 cup icing sugar
1 egg
1 package of vanilla sugar

Pour all ingredients on a clean counter, and mix together with your hands, knead until smooth.

Let the dough rest a bit, maybe 30 minutes. Then put some flour on the counter, roll out the dough and press the cookie cutter into the dough, always make sure you have an even number of all 3 sizes of the cookie cutter, (small, medium, large).

Then put on greased cookie sheet and bake for about 10 minutes at 350 F.

Take them out and let them cool. Then put some strawberry jam on all the big cookies, then put the middle size cookies on that, put another strawberry jam on this and top it up with the last smallest cookie, they look like a pyramid as you can see from the picture. Once they are all done, spread them with icing sugar through a sifter. They look great and taste delicious.