SWISS CHRISTMAS VANILLA BISCUITS:

These are extremely popular biscuits in our household at Christmas time after having made them year after year for visitors over the festive season. This year we have a wonderful new cutter (which my husband managed to find in a little shop in Germany whilst attending a conference there recently). It cleverly enables you to change the central part of the cutter to make a variety of different shapes, but you can use any small cutter or round cutter for the central part of the biscuit.

Swiss Christmas vanilla biscuit basic recipe:

250g butter

500g flour

200g sugar

1 pinch salt

2 eggs

2 egg yolks

½ packet vanilla sugar

Lemon rind

METHOD:

1.      Cream butter and add sugar bit by bit and vanilla sugar, salt and egg and beat for 10 minutes.

2.      Sieve in flour. Make into a dough.

3.      Put in fridge for at least an hour or two.

 

 

 

 

 

Cut out cookies (one top and one bottom for each biscuit).Cut out a small shape from the centre of the top of the cookie so that you can see the jam in the middle. Bake the biscuits for about 10-15 minutes at 160 degrees celsius.


Brush the bottom of each biscuit with a little jam (don't place the jam too close to the edges of the biscuit or it will spill out) and then place the top of the biscuit on top. Dust with icing sugar, glace icing and decorate if desired.

 

Decorate and enjoy!