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Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 8 cups all purpose flour 1 kg
  • 5 ½ butter sticks 600 kg
  • 1½ cups +2 tablespoons sugar 300 g
  • 6 egg yollks
  • half lemon zest or 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Equipment

  • flower cookie cutter

Method
 

  1. Cut the butter into pieces.
  2. Add the flour and mix it together with your hands.
  3. Add the egg yolks and the sugar.
    You can add a half peel of lemon or a ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract for more flavor.
  4. Mix everything together until it becomes a dough.
    Let the dough rest in the fridge for a half hour to one hour.
  5. Preheat the oven to 335 ℉.
  6. You need a flower cookie cutter if you want the right shape.
  7. Grab a piece of dough and roll it out to ⅓ inch thick. Use the flower cookie cutter and a small rounded shape to make the hole in the middle and put them on a baking sheet.
  8. Bake them for 10 minutes. The color should remain light. They shouldn’t get a golden color because when you take them out of the oven they’ll continue baking for a few more minutes.
  9. Let the cookies cool and, with the help of a strainer, add powdered sugar.
  10. Enjoy!l

Notes

You can store these cookies for a couple of weeks in a closed container.