Crunchy Butter Cookies

Summary

Ingredients

For the dough:

• 500g flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking powder
• 2 egg (s)
• 200 g suar
• 1 packet vanilla sugar
• 1 lemon (s), grated zest
• 5 drops bitter almond flavor
• 250 g butter

For painting:

• Egg yolk or couverture

For decoration:

• Egg whites and nuts or
• Lemon juice and powdered sugar, desiccated coconut or sugar pearls

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Instructions

1. Prepare the dough the day before: knead all dough ingredients together, wrap in aluminum foil and leave in the refrigerator until baked.
2. Line the trays with baking paper, preheat the oven to 200 degrees top / bottom heat. Roll out the dough 3 mm thick, cut out cookies with different shapes. Bake each tray for 8-10 minutes. Makes approx. 4 trays.
3. To get creative:
4. Brush the cookies with egg yolk before baking or
5. Make a nut macaroon dough, put a dollop of it on the cookies, press half a walnut or a hazelnut on top.
6. or:
7. Cover with couverture after baking or
8. Brush with icing made of powdered sugar and lemon juice and sprinkle with desiccated coconut or sugar pearls.