Basic Country Butter Cookies

Ingredients

110 gr butter
170 gr brown sugar
4 gr vanilla extract
1 egg
250 gr all purpose flour
2 gr baking powder
1 gr salt
1/4 thickness on floured surface
12 cookies
40 gr seedless raspberry jam

Instructions

red food coloring into half dough; after chilling, roll plain and colored dough by heaping teaspoonsful into 15 cm-long ropes. Twist ropes together by twos to form candy canes. Brush lightly with beaten egg white; sprinkle with pink sugar crystals. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Makes about 8 dozen. ----