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Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 3 cups flour, all-purpose
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 x apricot preserves (jam)
  • 1 x powdered sugar

Method

  • Cream butter and sugar until light.
  • Add flour and salt.
  • Chill slightly and roll 18 inch thick between wax paper sheets.
  • Roll only a small amount of dough at a time.
  • Using a 2 1/2 inch cookie cutter, cut cookies.
  • Cut center out of half of cookies.
  • Bake all cookies on ungreased sheets at 400F (200C).
  • for 8 to 10 minutes or less, until very lightly browned.
  • Cool on wire racks.
  • Spread whole cookies with preserves, piled higher in center.
  • Top with cookie ring.
  • Sprinkle with 4x sugar.
  • Store in tin box between layers of wax paper.