Swedish Wafers

SWEDISH WAFERS

Makes 52   individual cookies or

26 sandwich cookies

Ingredients

1  cup  butter, softened

1/3  cup heavy cream

1  teaspoon vanilla

2  cups flour

Sugar

Strawberry or raspberry or your favorite flavor of jam

Instructions

1.  In a medium bowl, with an electric mixer, beat the butter, heavy cream, vanilla, and flour until smooth and thoroughly combined.

2.  Form dough into a ball. Wrap in waxed paper; refrigerate for  2  hours.

3.  Divide dough into 4  parts; keep each part refrigerated until ready to roll out.

4.  Preheat oven to 375°.

5.  On well floured surface, roll dough, one part at a time, to 1/8  inch thick.

6.  Cut out cookies with a 1 ½   inch round cookie cutter.

7.  Place cookies 1  inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.

8.  Reroll trimmings, and cut.

9.  Prick surface of each cookie 3  times with fork.

10.  Sprinkle with sugar.

11.  Bake until puffy and delicately browned--  about 8  or 9  minutes.

12.Remove to wire rack; cool.

13.  Just before serving, put  2  cookies together, sandwich-fashion, with 

about 1  teaspoon jam in the middle.