Mailänderli

Easy christmas cookies for young and old.

Ingredients (for 50 pieces)

• 250g butter
• 250g sugar
• 500g flour
• 2 eggs
• 1 pinch of salt
• lemon zest

To coat

• egg yolk
• water
• cream

Preparation

Preheat oven to 180 °C bottom heat.

Prepare the dough
Beat butter, sugar and salt until fluffy and sugar is dissolved.

Mix eggs and lemon zest and add.

Add flour through a sieve and knead everything into a dough mixture.

Sprinkle flour on work surface and roll out dough to about 10mm thickness.

Chill for 1 hour and let the dough rest on a sheet of paper.

Cut out and chill again for 5-10 minutes.

Brush cookies with egg yolk, water and cream.

Bake for about 20 minutes until the cookies are golden brown.