Butter Cookies and Rascals

dough

1. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Knead all ingredients into a smooth dough. (Chill for a while if necessary) and roll out about 3mm thick.
2. Knead all ingredients into a smooth dough and place on a floured work surface
3. Cut out with cookie cutters of your choice, place about 1cm apart on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake at 180 ° C (convection) for about 10 minutes until golden brown.
4. Let the cookies cool down and glaze and decorate as desired (but they also taste delicious on their own 🙂

glaze

1. Mix powdered sugar with lemon juice to a thick / spreadable mass. Mix in a little cocoa for a dark glaze. (You can also make colored glazes with food coloring)

decoration

1. Coat the baked cookies thinly with the desired glaze (I always use a butter knife) and sprinkle / top with the desired crumble or nuts.
2. I always roughly chop the walnuts and roast them dry in a pan beforehand, so in my opinion it tastes even better.
3. You can also paint motifs on the cookies with colored glaze. (Tip: put the glaze in a freezer bag and cut open a lower corner a very small bit (depending on how thick you want to paint) and start painting)

Rascals

1. For the rascals, 2 identical places are placed on top of each other, the top place has a hole. I always use a medium-sized star cutter and a small star cutter for the hole.
2. Brush the lower cookie with apricot jam. Glaze and decorate the top cookie as desired and place it on the cookie coated with jam and press lightly. (I always prepare all the top cookies first so that their glaze is dry when they are put together later)