Easter eggs - sunny side up

I found a nice recipe in a German magazine for Easter cookies, that look like eggs or fried eggs sunny side up. Why not baking cookies for Easter as well? And it's a good present if you're invited somewhere for Easter. I will bake them as soon as the fasting is over, because this is too seductive otherwise :), but I think they will be perfect for my Easter brunch.

Here is what you need:

300 g flour
100 g powdered sugar
1 pinch of salt
1 sachet vanilla sugar
200 g cold butter in pieces
1 egg
5 drops of rum essence
1 ecologic orange
150 g mango jam or apricot jam


Mix the flour, powdered sugar, 1 pinch of salt  and 1 sachet of vanilla sugar in a bowl. Add the butter in pieces, the egg and 5 drops  rum essence and the orange zest of the ecological orange and kneed until smooth. Wrap with plastic wrap and put it into the fridge for 1 hour. Roll out the dough and cut out cookies that have the shape of an egg.

Cut a circle out of half of the cookies to make a window for the jam filling. Use baking paper for your baking pan and place the cut out cookies on it. Put the baking pan with the cookies in the fridge and preheat the oven to 160°C (approx. 320° F) bake the cookies for approx. 15 minutes and let them cool.

Boil the mango or apricot jam (you can vary the filling, if you like the colour to be red: red currant, raspberry and cherry. for two minutes. Cool to lukewarm. Turn the cookies that do not have holes over so you have the bottom up. Spoon 1/2 teaspoon jam on each cookie. Top with a cookie that has a hole and put powdered sugar on top.

I'll definitely try that recipe.

Have a nice evening!

Isabell