Linzer Tarts

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup margarine
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• seedless raspberry preserves
• powdered sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350.
• 2 beat margarine at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well. add egg and vanilla, beating until blended. add flour, beating at low speed until blended.
• 3 roll dough into small balls and place on greased cookie sheets, two inches apart. flatten dough balls with a flat-bottomed cup wrapped in a damp paper towel.
• 4 dip a thimble or small round cutter in flour and cut out a small circle in the center of exactly half of the cookies.
• 5 bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until set. (the cookies will be pale. the cut out halves will bake faster so watch closely.) transfer carefully to wire racks to cool.
• 6 spread raspberry preserves on top of solid cookies. top with remaining cookies, bottom sides down, to make sandwiches. sift powdered sugar over tops of cookies.