Cookies with Colorful Sugar

Ingredients

• 375 g flour
• 150 g sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 lemon (unprocessed)
• 250 g butter
• 1 egg
• 200 g powdered sugar
• Food coloring (as desired)
• colorful sugar (for sprinkling)

Instructions

1. 1.

   For the dough, mix flour with sugar, vanilla sugar, salt and the zest of half a lemon. Add the butter in pieces and beat with a dough whisk. Fold in the egg and knead quickly into a smooth dough. Chill the dough for at least 30 minutes.

2. 2.

   Preheat the oven to 170°C (convection). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

3. 3.

   Roll out the chilled dough on a floured surface to about 3 mm thickness and cut cookies in various shapes (stars, bells, moons). Then poke a hole in each cookie with a skewer for later hanging. Bake the cookies for 8-12 minutes until golden brown and cool on a wire rack.

4. 4.

   For the garnish, squeeze the lemon and sift powdered sugar into a bowl. Whisk together a thick glaze from the juice and powdered sugar. Divide the glaze as desired and tint lightly with food coloring to match the colorful sugar.

5. 5.

   Now glaze the cookies, leaving the hanging hole open. Sprinkle colorful sugar over the still-wet glaze or press the cookie edges into the sugar. Let dry on a wire rack.