Butter Cookies

Divide the dough into two halves. Make the German Slices and Chessboards from the one half. Add two eggs to the other half to make the other types. Let the dough sit in a cool place for a few hours. German Slices: With 1/4 of the basic dough above: roll into sausages about 4 1/2 cm in diameter. Cut into slices 1/2 cm thick. Bake on a greased cookie sheet. Chessboards: with 1/4 of the basic dough above: Divide the dough into two. Mix 2 tbsp cocoa into one half. Roll out two brown and two white 'sausages'. Put them together in a square, so that they alternate like squares on a chessboard. Cut into thin slices. Bake. The ones with the egg can be put into a pastry bag and squeezed through a star-shaped nozzle to make wreaths or short sticks. Two sticks can be put together with jam or chocolate glaze for filling. Jam cookies: Roll the dough out very thinly, 2-3 mm. Cut out circles about 6 cm in diameter. Put a little raspberry jam in the middle of each circle. Fold in half and seal the edges with the tines of a fork. Bake.