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4.2 from 15 votes

Finnish Christmas Cookies With Prune Jam (Joulutorttu)

From ingredients to enjoyment, this recipe makes it easy to create something wonderful.

Cuisine: Finnish

Ingredients

  • 4.5 ounces softened butter
  • ⅓ cup sugar
  • 1 ⅞ cup flour
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 orange zested
  • a pinch of salt
  • ¾ cup pitted prunes

Instructions

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  1. Start off with the dough. In a large bowl whisk together softened butter, orange zest, salt and sugar. Add one egg and whisk again.
  2. Sift together flour and baking powder and add them into the butter and egg mixture. Knead the dough until all ingredients are combined, wrap it in a plastic and chill for 30 minutes.
  3. Meanwhile, puree the prunes until smooth.
  4. On a lightly floured surface roll out the dough to ⅛-1/16 inch thick. If it's too thick, the dough may break during shaping. Using a ruler as a helper, cut out squares 2.5 х 2.5 in.
  5. Transfer the squares on the 2 parchment lined baking sheets. Make diagonal cuts in each corner of every square about 2 inches to the centre.
  6. Lift one corner of a square and fold it into the middle. Fold the next corner onto the previous one. Continue folding 2 more corners until your cookies have a pinwheel shape.
  7. Lightly press in the center of the cookies and place there about a teaspoon of prune jam.
  8. Brush cookies with a beaten egg and bake in a preheated to 390 F oven for 9-10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
  9. Just before serving sprinkle with an icing sugar.

Notes

  • Recipe is adapted from https://www.edimdoma.ru/retsepty/62072-finskoe-rozhdestvenskoe-pechenie