German Spitzbuben

Step 1

Place the flour in a large bowl

Step 2

Add the cold butter in small pieces to the flour

Step 3

Add the egg yolks, sugar, vanilla sugar, hazelnuts, lemon zest and salt and quickly knead to form a smooth dough

Step 4

Wrap the shortcrust pastry in cling film and chill in the fridge for about 2 hours

Step 5

Preheat the oven to 200 °C top/bottom heat

Step 6

Line baking sheets with parchment paper

Step 7

Roll out the dough in portions on a floured work surface and cut out the same number of rogues with two types of cutters (base and rings).

Step 8

Bake the cookies on the middle shelf for 10 minutes until golden

Step 9

After baking, carefully place the cookies with a spatula on a wire rack to cool.

Step 10

Repeat until all the dough is used up

Step 11

Dust the rings with powdered sugar.

Step 12

In a small saucepan, stir together the jam and lemon juice over low heat

Step 13

Place a teaspoon of jam on the bottom of each cookie and place a ring (covered with powdered sugar) on top of each

Step 14

Enjoy!