You have to try this one. I know a strudel is not a cookie but if you slice this one thin enough, it will be like a cookie and it will be the first one to leave the serving cookies t
ray, so easy for a strudel recipe and you will end up hiding it from everybody, to be sure you will have enough left for your breakfast the day after…
225 gr. of butter
1 cup of cream (I use the whipping cream) but you can also use sour cream
2 cups of white flour
Mix all together by hand and be careful to mix in all the butter. 
The more you mix by hand, the flakier your pastry will be.
Form 4 balls, put in plastic bags for 1 hour in the fridge
For the filling:
1 cup of any jam you have handy
1 cup of currants (dry raisins)
1 cup of walnuts broken in piece
1oz of rum (yes, the real one!)
Mix the ingredients for the filling together.
Remove one bag of pastry from the fridge. 
Roll out in a nice rectangle, scoop on it 1/4 of the filling, spraying it to the corners. Roll the dough, like a log cake, deposit on an un-greased cookie sheet. Proceed with the others. Bake at 350F, 45 minutes.
Cut diagonally, and sprinkle with powder sugar, marvelous!
