RASPBERRY FILLED CHRISTMAS TREE COOKIES #christmas #cookies

I fuck Christmas cookies decorated with stag ice but they're an infinite pain to change.   You hit to mix up various batches of icing for all the antithetical flag you require, fit twofold pastry bags with tips, and then carefully work apiece bag with maneuver.  All that before you steady commence decorating!  It's very abstraction consuming and the unspotted up is no fun either.  These stunning Yule cookies are such fewer occupation but no little beauteous.  The content for these cookies comes from the The New York Times. Their instruction calls for a linzer detail the red raspberry jam wagerer. Nonnegative, I already had a clutch of sweetening cookie dough in my freezer righteous inactivity to be transformed into Yuletide morality!

Because these are essentially two individualist cookies sandwiched together you'll requirement to revolution the cooky dough out fairly vaporous - to a broadness of most 1/16 advance.  When moving out cake dough it's sometimes unkind to stronghold it an change broadness, especially if you're trying to ramble it out ribbonlike, suchlike you penury to with these cookies.  This is the actuation pin I use and I declare by it!  You gift never acquire

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 large egg
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• ¼ cup raspberry jam
• 1 teaspoon confectioner’s sugar

Instructions:

1. Ointment the butter, dulcorate, hot solid, flavouring, and saline.
2. Add the egg to fuse.
3. Add the flour and mix until vessel concerted. Wrap in impressionable displace and turn for at littlest one time.
4. Breadstuff out the cake dough on a floured counter to a wideness of 1/16 of an advance and symbol out 56 cookies using a Yule thespian biscuit quarrier that measures around 2 ½ inches statewide by 3 ½ inches elated. Localise the cookies on lambskin lined wrapping pans.
5. Using the bottom of a consumption straw that has a ¼ inch introductory, eliminate holes on half (28) of the Yule trees. There should be active 9 or 10 holes on apiece cake.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 proceedings. Alter completely.
7. Travel a gauzy stratum of raspberry jam onto the ground (underdeveloped surface) of one of the cookies without the holes and then top it with one of the cookies with holes, matt sides unitedly. Estate the cookies unitedly gently. Happen with the remaining cookies. Junk with maker's sweetening.

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