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Everyone has loved these christmas cookies including me They look fancy and taste delicious I get excited weeks before christmas about these until I am in the kitchen and remember that they bring up quite some time INGREDIENTS 1 egg1 2 vanilla bean or 2 teaspoons vanilla flavoring 1 2 cup butter1 2 cup sugar2 3 cup ground almonds1 1 3 cups gluten free flour for cakes or cookies I use Dr Schaer Mix C apricot or strawberry jamconfectioners sugarCombine flour sugar and egg in a mixing bowl Scrape out half of the vanilla bean and add to bowl Cut butter into small pieces and lay out about the top Lastly sprinkle almonds on t

p of everything Knead until dough can be easily formed into a ball Wrap in aluminium foil and poise in the fridge for at least 3 hours Roll out with a rolling pin if bread is too sticky put it between 2 sheets of baking paper or on a lightly floured you can also use powdered sugar cutting board Roll out to the thickness of 1 8 to 1 4 inch the thinner the better You do not need a special cookie cutter for little rascals but it is helpful Cut with little round star or diamond shaped cookie cutters Either put the cookies on baking paper on a cookie sheet Bake at 350 deg for nearly 8 10 minutes until golden Remove cookies from the baking sheet and chill for at least 30 minutes Spread the bottom cookies with jam and put the top on With a sifter sprinkle powdered sugar on the finished Spitzbuben The better way to fund these cookies is in a round tin box After one level of cookies put one plane of baking paper cut up in between