Amaretto – Shortbread

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 250 g flour
• 75 g powdered sugar
• 1 pinch of salt
• 2 eggs
• 2 egg yolks
• 125 g butter, chilled
• 50 g pear(s), dried
• 50 g apricot(s), dried
• 2 tbsp apricot jam
• 3 tbsp Amaretto
• Flour, for rolling out
• 20 g almonds, sliced

Instructions

Working time approx. 40 minutes; Rest time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 1 hour 40 minutes

taste good not only at Christmas

Knead together flour, powdered sugar, salt, 1 egg, both egg yolks, and butter. Wrap the dough in cling film and chill for 1 hour. Finely dice the dried fruit and mix with the jam and Amaretto. Roll out the dough on a floured surface to a thickness of 3 mm and cut out circles (6 cm in diameter). Brush half of the circles with the remaining beaten egg and place 1 teaspoon of the fruit mixture on each. Make a cross-shaped cut in the middle of the remaining circles and press them onto the filled circles. Shape the edges of the cookies using the cookie cutter. Brush the cookies with egg and sprinkle with almonds. Bake on the middle shelf of an oven preheated to 200 degrees Celsius (gas mark 3) for 12-15 minutes.