Apple Christmas Cookies

Jam

Peel the apples, cut them in quarters, remove the center and cut them in cubes.

Place in a bowl and pour the lemon juice. Mix.

Pour the water and sugar in a sauce pan and cook with little bubbles for 5 minutes.

Add the apple cubes and cook at medium heat for 25 minutes.

Stir from time to time.

5 minutes before the end of cooking, add the vanilla.

At the end of cooking, mix until smooth.

Pastry

Preheat your oven at 180 C / 355 F degrees.

Combine butter and sugar until homogeneous.

Add the flour, combine.

Spread with a 3-4 mm thickness.

Cut the pastry with cutters, make a hole in the center of half of them and place on 2 baking mats.

Cook for 15 minutes.

Set aside on a cooling rack

Assembly

Garnish the biscuits without hole with apple jam. Spread icing sugar on the others.

Assemble the jam biscuits with sugar ones.