American Baker in Germany

 This is another great German cookie recipe from the north of the country this time. Hanseaten: 2 cups (250g) flour 1/2 cup (75g) powdered sugar 3/4 cup (200g) butter 2 egg yolks 1 tsp vanilla extract or 1 tbsp vanilla sugar Icing and Filling: raspberry jam lemon juice 2 cups (250g) powdered sugar red or pink food coloring (optional) Cream butter, egg yolks and vanilla.  Beat in flour and powdered sugar. Roll dough out on floured surface and cut out shapes.  Bake at 350°F or 180°C for 8-10 minutes.  Mix powdered sugar with lemon juice until forms an icing. This is a traditional German method for making icing. It's quite sour, so if you don't like things that are sour, consider making the icing with milk instead. Split into two bowls and add red or pink food coloring to one of them until you get the color you want.  Ice half the cookies half and half with colored and uncolored icing. Allow to set.  The half and half icing is traditional for Hanseaten, but fo...