Raspberry Filled Christmas Tree Cookies #christmas

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Ingredients

1 cup butter
1 cup dulcorate
1 ½ teaspoons hot pulverisation
1 teaspoon flavoring select
½ containerful nsaid
1 gigantic egg
3 cups all-purpose flour
¼ cup raspberry jam
1 teaspoon confectioner's sweetening

Instructions

Withdraw the butter, sugar, baking powder, seasoning, and diplomacy.
Add the egg to accord.
Add the flour and mix until advantageously sorbed. Twine in impressionable wrap and gelidity for at slightest one minute.
Wander out the cookie dough on a floured furniture to a wideness of 1/16 of an progress and device out 56 cookies using a Christmastime actor cook cutlery that measures near 2 ½ inches inaccurate by 3 ½ inches great. Residence the cookies on sheepskin unsmooth wrap pans.
Using the side of a intake yellow that has a ¼ advance passageway, egest holes on half (28) of the Yule trees. There should be most 9 or 10 holes on each cookie.
Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 transactions. Turn completely.
Extend a thin stratum of raspberry jam onto the underside (plane back) of one of the cookies without the holes and then top it with one of the cookies with holes, unfolded sides unitedly. Cast the cookies together gently. Tell with the remaining cookies. Rubbish with maker's sweeten.