3 ingredients only –butter, refined sugar and flour– are enough to knead these simple cookies and to make your house smell butter. Their taste will be upgraded with the use of 1 more ingredient: your favourite marmalade, hazelnut praline or any other spread you have at your kitchen, while the use of Christmas cookie-cutters will give them an Instagram-friendly appeal!
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Ingredients
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- 230 g butter, at room temperature ,
- 65 g white refined sugar ,
- 280 g all-purpose flour ,
- 100 g marmalade (whatever kind you like best) or hazelnut praline
Instructions
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- Preheat oven to 180°C. ,
- Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. ,
- In a bowl with an electric mixer beat together the butter and the sugar. ,
- Beat properly until the mixture is fluffy, approximately for 2 minutes. ,
- Finally add the flour, beating until it is well incorporated. ,
- Divide the dough into two equally sized balls. ,
- Using a rolling pin, flatten the dough to a 0.5 cm thickness. Personally, I flatten the dough directly on the baking sheets I have lined with parchment paper. ,
- Cut circles into the dough with a glass. ,
- Using a cookie cutter a size smaller than the glass you used, cut openings in the middle of half of the cookies. ,
- Reroll scraps as necessary. ,
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. ,
- Allow them to completely cool down. ,
- Spread evenly half of a tablespoon of any marmalade or praline you have at hand on top of the cookies that you have not cut with the cookie cutters. ,
- Top each of these cookies with a cut-out cookie. ,
- Store cookies in a tin box.
