Czechoslovakan Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb butter, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 cups flour
• 3/4 cup knott berry farms strawberry preserves
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• powdered sugar, for topping

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 degrees f.
• 2 cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• 3 add the egg yolks and blend well, gradually add flour and mix thoroughly – dough well be really stiff.
• 4 fold in the pecans.
• 5 spoon a little than half of the dough into an 8x8 inch ungreased pan. cover with preserves.
• 6 pat down the dough, making sure to form a little edge of dough around the pan (this will help to ensure that the preserves will not leak out and burn during baking).
• 7 using small handfuls of the remaining dough, pat the dough in your hands to form a small flat disk, lay on top of preserves, use up rest of the dough in the same manner, making sure that no preserves are left uncovered.
• 8 cover edges of dough with aluminum foil so that the edges will not brown to fast.
• 9 bake for 1 hour or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• 10 when the pan is cool, cut into small bars and dust with powdered sugar.