Lemon Heart Cookies

Ingredients for approx. 50 pieces

200 g flour
1 sachet vanilla sugar
120 g butter
120 g sugar
1 pinch grated lemon zest
50 g candied lemon peels finely chopped
1 pinch salt

Glaze
100 ml lemon juice, 180 g icing sugar

Dough
Place the flour on a work surface and mix with the vanilla sugar. Knead the diced butter, sugar, lemon peel, candied lemon peel and salt together with the flour mixture to form a smooth dough and allow to rest in the fridge for 1 hour. Roll out to a thickness of about ½ cm on a floured work surface, cut out heart shapes, place on a baking tray and bake in a preheated oven until light brown.
Oven temperature: 180 degrees for about 7 minutes

Glaze
Mix the lemon juice with the icing sugar. Coat the pastry with the icing.