Sachler Cookies

By jlawrin

Given to me by my neighbor.

These are Austrian cookies.

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 2 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 1/4 cup ground hazelnuts (3/4 cup whole)
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon grated lemon rind
• 1 tablespoon rum
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 6 ounces or more of semi sweet, melted chocolate chips
• raspberry jam

Preparation

Step 1

Combine flour and sugar in a bowl, add butter cut up into small pieces, blend well with a pastry blender or use two knives to combine. Add sugar, ground hazelnuts, lemon juice, lemon rind, rum and vanilla, knead into a smooth dough.
Cover and chill in refrigerator 3 hours to overnight.
Between wax paper roll small pieces of dough into 1/4 inch thickness. Keep remaining dough chilled until ready to use. Cut into rounds with a cookie cutter. Bake on parchement paper at 325 for 10-15 minutes, or until golden.
When cooled put two cookies together with jam then dip 1/2 of cookie in melted chocolate, place cookie on parchement paper til chocolate is set.