Cookies "Canestrelli di Torriglia"

These are simple yet chic classic Ligurian Christmas cookies. The cookies are flavored with lemon and white rum. And how crumbly it is !!! As far as I understand, cookies are traditionally cut in the form of delicate chamomile and sprinkled with a layer of powdered sugar. Recipe from the book "COOKING WITH NONNA A YEAR OF ITALIAN HOLIDAYS 130 CLASSIC HOLIDAY RECIPES FROM ITALIAN GRANDMOTHERS" ROSSELLA RAGO.

Ingredients

• butter at room temperature 240 g
• sugar 75 g
• egg yolks from large eggs (room temperature) 2 pcs.
• 1/2 lemon zest
• vanilla extract 1 tsp
• white rum 1 tbsp
• flour "General purpose" or "Universal" 180
• corn starch 100 g
• icing sugar for decorating cookies

Directions

1. Beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Add the yolks one at a time, whisking well each time so that the yolk is completely incorporated into the butter mass. Add zest, vanillin or vanilla essence and rum, mix on medium mixer until combining. Sift flour with starch and add to liquid ingredients. Knead a soft dough, it even sticks a little to your hands. Wrap the dough in foil and refrigerate for 1-2 hours.
2. Preheat oven to 170 gr. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper. Roll out the chilled dough between two sheets of baking paper to a thickness of 6 mm.
3. Cut out cookies with a diameter of 6 cm with cookie cutters (you can make cookies smaller). Spread the cookies on a baking sheet at a distance of 2.5 cm from each other. Place a baking sheet with cookies in the freezer for 5 minutes. Collect the rest of the dough and place in the freezer before unloading again. Bake the cookies for 15 minutes so that the bottom is browned and the top remains fairly pale.