To prepare white dough mix 200g of flour and 100g of butter. At a Chinese recipe used cooking oil, but we have, unfortunately, the closest store was not, and I used butter. The ingredients mix and knead the dough, it will be greasy and sticky.

The original recipe used food coloring, but since I do not accept and do not want to feed them to my family, I use natural dyes. Of cherries (I had frozen, about 250g) squeeze the juice, this is the dye, the only natural and healthy! In the sifted flour, add vanilla to taste, butter or cooking oil, sugar ( I used brown Demerara) and our dye - cherry juice. All thoroughly and knead the dough.

One and the second dough cover with cling film and leave for 20-25 minutes to rest, after the dough will become very soft and pliable to work with.

Then, each color of the test divided by the same even number of small balls.

Take the pink ball, roll out into a round cake in the middle to put the ball of white dough. Further manipulation of the test give a stratification of the finished product. If you use cooking oil, then layering will be more pronounced.

Edge pink test to collect and take.

Then roll into oval cakes and roll in rolls. Leave rolls to rest for 20 minutes, necessarily covering film, otherwise the dough will sovetnitsa, and will be hard to roll out.

And this is my little 3-year-old daughter's assistant, helps her mother roll the dough rolls. After 20 minutes roll out each roll again in the oval cake and again twisted rolls. Cover with film and leave for another 20 minutes.

While the dough "rests", let's prepare the filling. The recipe of the filling in the original of the chestnut paste with sunflower seeds, but I decided to change the filling for a more simple, more precisely the one that we actually buy in a small town. The stuffing recipe was shared one Super kulinarka just a very good man Zarina Kudako. Darinochka, thank you so much for the recipe and tips! Nuts I shredded in the blender, added sugar 3st. L. Sugar I used brown, firm Mistral from the Demerara river, which is shaded and complemented the taste of nuts, giving the filling a special touch. I admit I tried the brown sugar in this series for the first time and fell in love with the taste and aroma, proudly contributed in the kitchen cupboard for him and his counterparts in other series, which are the first on my shopping list. Oh... back to the stuffing...))) To the nuts and sugar add 1 egg white, mass stir thoroughly.

Got this nutty mass.

After a time the rolls of roll into round cakes, mutually impose on one another, put the filling, edge prioraty and to take.

The dough ball to give a slightly oval shape and flip it over, seam side down.

Top make 3 crosswise cuts, cutting all the layers of dough.

Cookies spread on a baking tray lined with parchment and send in the oven for 30 minutes at a temperature of 170 degrees. The finished cookies put on the grill and allow to cool. P. S. as the natural dyes fade when baked, become paler, the color turned out lighter than before baking. Shades of color can be changed by using different dyes.