Snowflake Cookies

This a german recipe. It was my great grandmothers recipe. It brings back memories of going to her house and eating them at christmas.

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Serves: 16
• Yields: 80 cookies

Ingredients

• 250  g flour
• 150  g margarine
• 250  g sugar
• 2  eggs
• 1  teaspoon cinnamon
• 200  g ground hazelnuts
• 100  g margarine
• 50  g flour

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 200°C.
2. To make the dough: Mix 150g margarine, sugar, eggs, cinnamon, nuts, and 250g flour until you have a smooth dough. Wrap dough into foil and put in the fridge for 30 minutes.
3. To make the topping: Mix 100g margarine and 50g flour with 2-3 tsp of water until you have a thick enough dough to spray. Put into a freezer or zipplock bag.
4. Roll out the cookie dough 1-2 cm thick. Cut out circles or snowflake shapes and place on backing paper covered cookie sheet.
5. Cut a little tip off one of the bottom corners of the freezer bag and spray/dot snowflake designs on the cookies.
6. Bake cookies aprox. 10 minutes or until golden brown.