Pumpkin cookies for Halloween

Preparation

1. Chop the pumpkin and put it in a saucepan. Cover it with water and cook over low heat until tender. Then, add the sugar (about 100 gr.) and the lemon zest and let the pumpkin caramelize. If we see that it is too sticky, we add water. If the opposite occurs, we increase the dose of sugar or remove water.

2. Let the pumpkin cool and if necessary crush it a little. We should be left with some kind of jam.

3. To prepare the cookie dough, mix the flour with the salt, the softened butter, 150 grams of sugar and two egg yolks. Stir until well mixed. Then, we add the wine and the whole egg. Finally, we add the pumpkin jam. Knead the dough until it is compact and homogeneous. We form a ball with it, wrap it in film and let it refrigerate for 1 hour.

4. After the resting time, we stretch it with a rolling pin and form a sheet half a centimeter thick (depending on the one we want for the cookies). We cut the pasta with special molds or a cardboard template.

5. We arrange them separated from each other on a baking tray covered with non-stick paper. Bake the cookies at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes or until golden brown.

6. Let them cool out of the oven and onto a wire rack before serving.