STACK OF COOKIES RECIPES

Steps:

• Beat together the butter, sugar, vanilla sugar and a pinch of salt until fluffy. Separate one of the eggs and put the egg white aside for the icing. Add the egg yolk and the second egg to the mixture and beat in. Add the almonds and knead to a smooth dough that comes away from your hands easily. Wrap in cling film and chill for around 30 minutes.
• Heat the oven to 200°C (180°C in a fan oven), 400°F, gas 6 and line a baking tray with grease-proof paper.
• Roll the dough out on a floured surface to a thickness of 4-5 mm and cut out stars in assorted sizes. Transfer to the baking tray and bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes. Remove from the tray and leave to cool.
• To decorate, whisk the reserved egg white with the lemon juice until stiff. Trickle in the icing sugar, stirring. Beat until the icing is of good piping consistency. Spoon into a piping bag and pipe icing around the edges of the stars. Dab a little icing in the centre of each star and stack the stars according to size. Leave to dry thoroughly, then dust with icing sugar.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees.
• Mix sugar with salt.
• Mix sugar mixture with coconut.
• Mix in eggs.
• Butter one large cookie sheet.
• Drop by tablespoonfuls on cookie sheet and shape like small haystacks.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.
• Cool 5 minutes then remove from sheet.
• NOTE:.
• Before adding any spices to this recipe, if you have never had these before, you should make them plain like the recipe is first then decide if you want to add any thing else. We like them the way they are.
• You may be surprised at the flavor as they are.
• Recipe does not include cooling time.