LINZER COOKIES

Steps:

• Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy;.
• Beat in egg, egg yolk, lemon rind and vanilla.
• Stir in nuts.
• Stir in flour, baking powder and cinnamon, blend well.
• Wrap in wax paper, chill several hours or overnight.
• Using half of dough and roll out between 2 sheets of wax paper to slightly less than 1/4 inch thickness. (Even though I chill the dough, I always have to let it warm up a bit to be able to roll it.)
• Remove top sheet of wax paper, cut out circles or hearts.
• Carefully, place shapes on ungreased cookie sheet lined with parchment.
• Save scraps for second rolling.
• Repeat with other half of dough, making an equal number of cookies.
• With a smaller cookie cutter (you can actually purchase Linzer cookie cookie cutters in large and small sizes) cut out the centers of half the cookies.
• Use scraps to make equal numbers of solid and cut-out cookies.
• Bake at 350 degree oven for 12 minutes or until edges of cookies are golden.
• Remove cookie sheets from oven. Remove with wide spatula to wire racks.
• Cool.
• Heat raspberry jam/jelly.
• Spread each solid cookie with jam, gently press cut out cookie on top of jam, making a "sandwich".
• Sprinkle tops of cookies with confectioners sugar.
• Add dab of jam into opening of each cookie, let set slightly.
• Store in layers with wax paper between each layer.