Swabian cookie cutters

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 500 g flour
• 200 g sugar
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar
• 2 eggs or 6 egg yolks
• 250 g butter, soft
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 tsp, leveled lemon peel, dried
• 1 egg white for brushing
• n. B. Chocolate decoration (various sugar or chocolate sprinkles
• n. B. Brittle
• n. B. Nuts, chopped

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour; Rest time approx. 1 hour; Cooking/baking time approx. 8 minutes; Total time approx. 2 hours 8 minutes

without baking powder, without mixer

Recipe for about 100 cookies. Sift the flour onto a work surface and make a fist-sized well in the center. Sprinkle the sugar and vanilla sugar into this well, spreading it up the sides of the flour. Add the eggs or egg yolks to the well. Sprinkle the softened butter in small pieces over the flour all around. Now take a regular knife and start mixing the egg and sugar, starting in the center. Once the two ingredients have combined, add the salt and lemon zest and work them into the sugar and egg mixture. Chop in the first few pieces of butter and the inner part of the flour with a knife. Once everything has been processed into a crumb-like mixture, knead the dough briefly with your hands and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, or even 1 day. Then knead again briefly and roll out with a rolling pin to about 3 mm thick, cut out with various cookie cutters, and place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Mix the egg whites vigorously with a fork and brush the cookies with it, decorate with sprinkles or other decorations and bake at 200 °C for about 8 minutes.