Star Cookies

Ingredients

• 250 g flour
• 50 g ground, peeled almonds
• 1 pinch salt
• 100 g sugar
• 1 egg
• 200 g butter
• flour (for the work surface)
• 150 g strawberry jam
• 3 tbsp powdered sugar

Instructions

1. 1.

   Mix the flour with the almonds, salt and sugar, sift onto a work surface, press a well in the middle, crack the egg into it and distribute the butter in flakes around the well. Roughly chop all ingredients with a large knife and quickly knead them by hand into a smooth dough. Shape into a ball and wrap in cling film, refrigerate for 30 minutes.

2. 2.

   Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) with upper and lower heat.

3. 3.

   Knead the dough again on a floured surface, roll it out to 0.4 cm thickness and cut star shapes (about 5 cm diameter) with an appropriate cutter. Cut a small star from the center of half the stars and place all stars on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Knead the remaining dough together and cut more stars.

4. 4.

   Bake the stars in the preheated oven for about 8 minutes. Remove, lift the cookies off the parchment onto a cooling rack.

5. 5.

   Warm the jam, strain it through a sieve and thinly spread it over the full stars. Dust matching pieces with powdered sugar and place them on top of the jam‑coated stars. Let dry and serve.