Christmas preparations - cookies

This year I promised myself to go slowly and easily, so I'm making only two types of cookies - Linzer and honey. These are my Linzer cookies with milk and walnuts which we made and decorated together with my son a couple of days ago. I hope your holidays are bright and yummy like a plate of Christmas cookies! :)




Linzer cookies with milk and walnuts
(I use a medium coffee cup to measure, approximately 300 ml)

2 cups flour
1 cup powdered sugar
2 eggs (at room temperature)
half cup soft butter (at room temperature)
10-12 walnuts (powdered or grated finely)
the rind of one lemon, finely grated
1 / 5 cup of warm milk with one tablespoon of liquid vanilla in it
jelly of red, green or yellow fruit ( I use strawberry jelly with no sugar added)
icing sugar for sprinkling

Sift the flour flour and the powdered sugar, add the eggs and the oil, and knead well until you get a dry dough, may be brittle. Add the nuts powder and the lemon rind, mix well again. Add milk little by little and knead again, you can sprinkle a little flour on your hands if very sticky. Roll out the dough on baking paper (as big as your tray) to a thickness of about half an inch, not too thin, because it's easy to over bake the cookies. Cut in the desired shapes, and in every second cookie (for example, the second tree) make a round hole (I use a bottle cap). Bake in preheated oven at 350 degrees until pink, be careful to not over bake. As son as the cookies look a bit fluffy on their tops, you can take them out. Now spread jelly on the bottom one, top with the second one (with the hole), sprinkle with icing sugar and finally add more jelly in the hole with the tip of a knife (to keep it red and to avoid icing sugar in it). These cookies can easily stay for about two weeks on your table. If you don't add jelly at this point, you can preserve them in boxes for three weeks and add jelly just before the holiday. However, I prefer to add the jelly while the cookies are warm because they draw the liquid from it, they stay soft and stick well to one another. Enjoy!