Raisin and Nut Filled Cookies

Cookies are one of my favorite baked treats. These raisin and nut filled cookies are perfect to add to your cookie tray for serving guests or for gifting at Christmas.  They are good plain or you can dust them with icing sugar.

Filling:

• 1 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1 cup boiling water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
• 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped

1. In a small saucepan, combine raisins, sugar, and flour. Add boiling water, stirring constantly until thickened. 
2. Remove from heat, add vanilla, lemon zest and chopped walnuts. Set aside and cool completely.

Cookies:

• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 3 cups flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

1. Cream together butter and sugar.
2. Stir in egg, vanilla, and lemon juice.
3. Add cream alternately with the combined dry ingredients until dough is well blended.
4. Roll dough out fairly thin, approx 1/8".
5. Cut with a 2" cookie cutter 
6. Place a teaspoon of filling in the middle of a cookie, place another cookie on top and press around the edges lightly to seal.
7. Bake in 350º oven for 10 minutes or just until lightly golden.
8. Cool on rack.
9. Yields: approx 2 dozen filled cookies.

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