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Equipment

  • flower cookie cutter

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

Instructions
 

  • Cut the butter into pieces.
  • Add the flour and mix it together with your hands.
  • 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.
  • Mix everything together until it becomes a dough.
    Let the dough rest in the fridge for a half hour to one hour.
  • Preheat the oven to 335 ℉.
  • You need a flower cookie cutter if you want the right shape.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Let the cookies cool and, with the help of a strainer, add powdered sugar.
  • Enjoy!l

Notes

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