When you see an orange that looks like this...

You know that I am baking my Mother's decadent Christmas butter cookies.

That's the easy part.  Hiding them from myself is the difficult part.

Same recipe (follows), only stack 2 cookies together.

Fill center of cookies with home made preserves, then bake.

 

Recipe

Cream together 1 cup unsalted butter

and 2/3 cup sugar

Beat in 1 egg,

1tsp vanilla, pinch of salt,

1 Tb orange rind,

1 Tb fresh lemon juice

Add 2 and 1/2 cups of sifted flour

Mix until well blended

spoon onto cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned

OR

Cool (not chill) dough for 1 hour

Cut out 2 cookie shapes, same size, cut center hole into one cookie

stack and fill with preserves

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until barely colored at 350 degrees.

Makes about 2 dozen cookies.

Happy baking, my dear Blogging Friends.

Gina