Red Currant Cookies Recipes

RED CURRANT COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 f.
• Grease a baking sheet.
• Sift flour onto a pastry board and make a well in the centre.
• Add sugar, vanilla sugar and egg yolks to well.
• Mix a small amount of flour into the ingredients in the well to make a thick paste.
• Cut cold butter into small pieces over the flour mixture.
• Working quickly and starting from the centre, work all the ingredients together to make a smooth dough.
• Chill dough for 1/2 hour.
• Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to a 3mm (1/8 ") thickness.
• Cut into 5 cm (2 ") rounds.
• Cut 3 small holes using a floured thimble, in half of the cut out rounds, or use a smaller cookie cutter to cut a hole in the centre (you can use linzer cookie cutters if you have them).
• Place on prepared baking and bake on middle rack of oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown.
• Cool cookies.
• Spread jam on the solid rounds and cover with the cut out rounds.
• Dust with the icing sugar while the cookies are still warm (easiest way is to dip cut out cookie into icing sugar before placing on top of jam layer.

RED CURRANT MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and orange zest. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture just until blended. Fold in currants. , Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to wire rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Serve warm.

CURRANT COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit.
• Beat egg and milk together set aside.
• Sift flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and sugar together.
• Cut in margarine until the mixture is crumbly; add the egg/milk mixture.
• Mix in currants.
• Roll dough on floured surface to about a 1/2 inch thick.
• Cut with round cookie cutter.
• Place cookies on an ungreased baking pan.
• Bake for approximately 12 minutes or until the tops are golden brown.
• After removing cookies from the oven, while they are still hot, sprinkle tops with sugar to taste.

RED CURRANT JELLY THUMBPRINT COOKIES

Steps:

• In large bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until creamy.
• Separate eggs.
• Place whites in a small bowl, lightly beat; set aside.
• Add egg yolks and vanilla to butter mixture.
• Beat well.
• In another bowl, stir together flour and salt.
• Gradually add flour & salt to butter mixture, Blending thoroughly.
• With your hands, roll dough into balls about 1-inch diameter.
• Dip each ball in eggs whites, then roll in finely chopped walnuts to coat.
• Place on greased baking sheets,spacing 1 inch apart.
• With your thumb or the tip of a spoon (I use my thumb), make an indentation inthe center of each ball.
• Neatly fill each indentation with 1/4 teaspoon jelly or jam.
• (If using icing fill each cookie after baking.) Bake in a 375° oven for 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Let cool on baking sheets for about 1 minute, then transfer to rack and let cool completely.
• This is when I fill each with icing.