Christmas cookies (1)

Yesterday we made some "miroirs" they are my favorit christmas cookies.

I give you the recipe :

250grams of butter (I said they are my favorits but not necessarily the best when you have some kilos to lose after a pregnancy for exemple !)
let it become soft as you want (microwave, or just take it out before) and then mix it until it looks like a cream
125 gram icing sugar
2 tea spoon of vanilla sugar
1 pinch of salt (you can put some black pepper in stade of vanilla sugar ... very good with strawberry jam!)
mix well all together until it become white (let's say very light yellow)
1 white of an egg
make it become white but no need to be very firm
350 grams plain flour
just add and form a "ball"

Let it in the fridge at least 2 hours then take it out 30 mins before starting.

Then you need some special cookie cutter rond with a hole in the middle or you can make it yoursefl. You roll out the dough (2mm) and you make little round (for the bottom) and little round with a hole (fot the top) you place them in the oven pre-heated at 200°C for 7 min then you let them cool a bit while you heat the jam and you put some jam (very good with redcurrant !!) on the flat bottom and then put the lid on top. You can put some icing sugar on the lid for a nice effect. And that's it.

Of course it is better to make some quality-testing during the whole process and Tristan take this part very seriously !