Walnut cookies

Ingredients for 50 servings:

• 300 g flour
• 200 g sugar
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar
• 1 tsp rum
• 1 pinch of salt
• 200 g butter
• 150 g ground walnuts
• 50 g semi-sweet chocolate coating
• 200 g walnuts
• 200 g jelly (currant jelly)
• 150 g powdered sugar
• 1 lemon(s), the juice

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Rest time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 1 hour 20 minutes

For the dough, knead the flour, sugar, vanilla sugar, rum, salt, butter, and ground walnuts. Chill for 1 hour. Roll out the dough and cut out cookies with a diameter of 5 cm. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and bake the cookies for about 8 minutes. For the decoration, warm the chocolate coating and coat half of the walnuts with it. Stir the redcurrant jelly until smooth. Spread it on half of the cooled cookies and sandwich each one with a second cookie. Stir the powdered sugar and lemon juice until smooth and thick. Spread the glaze over the cookies and decorate each with a walnut.