Orange marzipan cookies

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 200 g flour
• 60 g sugar
• 125 g butter or margarine
• 1 egg(s)
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 orange(s)
• 1 small jar of apricot jam or currant jam, optionally mixed
• powdered sugar
• 200 g marzipan

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour 30 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 10 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 40 minutes

First, make a shortcrust pastry by mixing the flour, salt, and sugar together and placing it on a work surface. Then make a well in the center for the egg. Add the butter in small pieces around the egg. First, grate the zest of the orange and then squeeze the juice from the orange. Add 1-2 tablespoons of orange juice to the well containing the egg and add a small amount of the zest to the dry ingredients, setting the rest aside. The dough is easiest to work with if you chop from the outside in with a spatula so that the ingredients are roughly mixed first and the butter is very finely chopped. Then quickly knead the dough with your hands and chill. Roll out the dough on a floured surface and cut out cookies. Bake at 180 degrees (top/bottom heat) for between 6 and 10 minutes, depending on your oven. The cookies shouldn’t be too brown! Then mix the jam and put it in a piping bag. Place a dollop of this on each cookie. Of course, you can also spread each cookie with a knife, but that’s more work and messy. Roll out the marzipan with powdered sugar and use the same cutter to cut out the tops for the cookies. Then place them on the jam and press down lightly. Make a glaze with a little orange juice and the powdered sugar and spread it on the marzipan. Decorate with the orange peel. It’s best to store them in a cool, dry container; then the cookies will keep for a relatively long time.