HAZELNUT STARS

Hello ;)

So .. Christmas cookies almost gone so I decided to try a new recipe. According to my children are really  the best so far and I think I'll have to bake again tomorrow as there are almoust half missing already ;) 

RECIPE FOR 60
Dough preparation time : 30 minutes
Cooking time and the final preparation: 90 min

INGREDIENTS
350g spelled flour
6 g of baking powder
2 g of salt / pinch
100 g ground hazelnuts
30 g of ground seeds ( chia + linseed)
1 vanilla sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla concentrate/liquid
3 g of cinnamon
1 g ginger
1 g of nutmeg
70g brown sugar
10 g of stevia powder
200 g margarine (or butter -flavored )
1 egg
2 tbsp rum
1 grated lemon zest or lime

All the dry ingredients mix together . Then make a hole in the middle of the mixture and add the wet ingredients and chopped to pieces margarine . Knead until ingredients from sticking together into a dough . Place the dough in the fridge for half an hour.

When the dough is cooled divide it into four parts . Each of which roll between two baking paper , so that the dough does not stick on the kitchen counter . The thickness of the dough should be about 3mm . 

With the scale model in the form of stars ( can also use any other form ) we make a shape of a cookie. We can put a model into a flour first (it will be easier to cut holes and that the dough won't stick to a model). 

 In one part cut out smaller holes . We must be careful that we have half the cookies with holes and half without . Then you remove the dough around the shapes and put baking paper with cookies on it on a baking dish and in the oven. 

Bake cookies at 195 degrees for 8 minutes .

While the first cookies bake, roll out the dough again and repeat the process until you run out of dough.

When all the cookies are baked you put on baking paper the ones with holes close to each other and sprinkle them with powdered sugar . Meanwhile, heat the apricot jam to the liquid situation. With a brush for cooking, spread jam on a cookie without holes and cover it with the one with the holes . Repeat this procedure until we have lubricated all cookies.