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I ngredients:

● ? cup vegetable oil

●⒈／⒋cup orange juice

● ⒈／⒋ cup of lemon juice from two fresh-squeezed lemons

●Lemon zest

● 2 ⒈／⒉ teaspoons vanilla extract

● 4 cups all-purpose flour (you may need more)

● 1 tablespoon baking powder

● ⒈／⒉ cup strawberry jam, ⒈／⒉ cup apricot preserves. (You can use other flavors if you’d like.)

Method:

● Preheat the oven to 350℉.

● Line two cookie sheets with parchment

● Prepare a clean table surface by putting parchment paper down, and then cover with a light dusting of flour.

● In the bowl of a stand mixer or in a bowl with an electric mixer, combine three eggs and sugar and beat until smooth and creamy.

● Stir in oil, orange juice, lemon juice, lemon zest, and vanilla.

● Add flour, one cup at a time, until you create a stiff dough, adding more flour as needed.

● Turn dough out onto your prepared work surface.

● Roll dough out until it is about ⒈／⒉ inch thick.

● Cut circles of the dough using a circular cookie cutter or the floured rim of a round glass.

● Place circles about 2 inches apart onto the lined cookie sheets.

● Using a teaspoon, spoon two teaspoons of jam into each cookie’s center, making sure you evenly divide the cookies up so that half are strawberry and half are apricot (or if you have three people in your family who want the one kind and only one person wants the other, divide accordingly ;))

● Spoon about 1 to 2 teaspoons of preserves into the center of each cookie. Pinch edges to form three corners.

● This is the tricky part: PINCH the dough together to form three corners around the jam-filled center. Do not ROLL or FOLD the dough, because usually the dough breaks when you try to do that.

● Once you have them in the triangular shape, bake for about 15 minutes.

Check at around 12 minutes to check on the color.

You want the final color to be a golden light brown.

The addition of citrus can make it brown faster, so don’t wander off and do other things, or you’ll end up with charred cookies.

● Store in an airtight container for up to five days.