Butter cookies

There are few things that I would rather be doing on the first day of the school winter holidays than making cookies with my daughter. The camaraderie in the kitchen, the small talk, the planning and then the actual baking. Coupled to the fact that the kitchen has that homely smell of cookies baking. All in all a great experience. And the recipe is the simplest one of all:
Take 250g of soft (room temperature) butter and mix it with 150g of caster sugar until well blended. Now add the yolk of one large egg and beat until the mixture is smooth. Next add 300g of flour and a half a teaspoon of salt and mix until you have a dough ball. Wrap the ball in some plastic warp and leave to rest in the fridge for half an hour.
Once cooled, dust your work surface with flour and roll out to about half a centimeter and then cut with cookie cutters. I used two heart shapes (big and small). Bake until lightly brown. Allow to cool. Place some (red) jam, like strawberry in the middle of the solid heart (on the back side) and place the heart with the hole over it. Enjoy!
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