April Fool !!!!

Ingredients

INGREDIENTS FOR ABOUT 15 JAM-FILLED SHORTBREAD COOKIES

• 250 g flour
• 1 egg
• 100 g softened butter
• 50 g ground almonds
• 100 g caster sugar
• 1 sachet vanilla sugar
• icing sugar for finishing
• 1 jar of seedless Raspberry jam

EQUIPMENT

• A mixing bowl
• A whisk or electric mixer
• Cling film
• A rolling pin
• A fish-shaped cookie cutter

Instructions

1. In a mixing bowl, whisk the softened butter with the caster sugar and vanilla sugar vigorously, using a whisk or electric mixer, until the mixture turns pale.
2. Add the egg. Mix again.
3. Fold in the flour and ground almonds. Work the dough well until it forms a ball.
4. Wrap the ball of dough in cling film to prevent it from drying out. Place in the fridge for 30 minutes.
5. 30 minutes later, flour the work surface and roll out the dough with a rolling pin until it is neither too thin nor too thick: about 3 mm thick.
6. Using a cookie cutter, cut out pretty fish shapes. In half of the cookies, cut a hole for the eye at the head.
7. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes at 150°C. Watch the colour of the cookies, which should stay white and not brown.
8. Leave to cool on a wire rack.
9. Then spread a thin layer of seedless Raspberry jam on the plain shortbread and cover with the pierced one. Finally, dust with icing sugar.
10. APRIL FOOL!!!!!!

While your children enjoy the shortbread cookies, take the opportunity to stick a paper fish on their back… and check at the same time that you don't already have one on yours!