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mix the butter + icing sugar with the whisk till you get creamy pale mixture.
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add the eggs and go on whisking till they blend well.
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sift the flour +baking powder +salt+cinnamon.
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add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix with your hands till you have a homogenous dough.
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spread the dough between two plastic sheets or baking sheets, and put that spreaded dough as it is -between the sheets- on a tray in the freezer for 10-15 min.
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heat the oven on 190 C or moderate.
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with your favourable cutter cut the shapes you want from the dough -notice how easy the quiet chilled dough will help in this step-.
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put your biscuits on a tray lightly spayed with oil, or use baking sheet
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make holes in half the number of the biscuits using suitable size cutter.
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put in the oven it will take 10-12 min just till the buttom has light golden color.
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cool on a wire rack.
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sprinkle the pieces with holes with icing sugar.
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put small amount of jam -goes best with apricot- on each whole piece.
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put the biscuits with holes on top of those with jam.