Marzipan walnut cookies

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 350 g flour or spelt flour
• 200 g butter
• 200 g sugar
• 150 g walnuts, ground
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar
• 1 small egg(s)
• 1 small bottle(s) of rum flavoring
• 6 drops of bitter almond flavor
• 1 pinch of cardamom
• 1 pinch of salt
• 400 g marzipan paste
• Powdered sugar for rolling out
• 1 jar currant jelly or plum jam
• 200 g chocolate glaze or couverture
• Flour for rolling out

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour; Rest time approx. 2 hours 30 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 10 minutes; Total time approx. 3 hours 40 minutes

makes about 100 pieces

Quickly knead the flour, sugar, vanilla sugar, rum flavoring, bitter almond oil, cardamom, butter, salt, and ground walnuts into a smooth dough and chill for about 2 hours. Roll out the dough on a floured surface to about 1/2 cm thick and cut out round cookies (about 4 cm in diameter). Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Bake the cookies at 180°C for about 10 minutes until light golden brown, then let them cool on a wire rack. Stir the redcurrant jelly until smooth, then spread each whole cookie with redcurrant jelly or plum jam. Roll out the marzipan very thinly (about 1 mm) using powdered sugar and cut out the same size as the finished cookies. Place on each cookie and cover with chocolate icing or coating.