Linzer Cookies
Linzer Cookies

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, linzer cookies. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Linzer Cookies is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Linzer Cookies is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook linzer cookies using 13 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Linzer Cookies:
  1. Make ready Cookies
  2. Get 150 grams ground almonds
  3. Take 260 grams all purpose flour/plain flour
  4. Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  5. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
  6. Make ready 1 zest of one small lemon
  7. Get 226 grams unsalted butter
  8. Make ready 150 grams granulated white sugar
  9. Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
  10. Get 2 large egg yolks
  11. Make ready Toppings
  12. Make ready 60 grams confectioners' /icing sugar
  13. Get 120 grams raspberry/black currant jam ( or other jams), well stirred
Steps to make Linzer Cookies:
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C).
  2. In a bowl, sift flour, cinnamon, salt and lemon zest and mix them together.
  3. Using an electric hand mixer, or a stand mixer, cream butter.
  4. Add sugar to the creamed butter and continue to beat till light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla extract and egg yolks.
  5. Mix in the ground almonds and flour mixture.
  6. Divide dough into 3 parts. Using a cling wrap or a parchment paper to cover the dough, roll to about 1/4 inch thick. Refrigerate the dough till firm.
  7. Remove one of the dough and using a larger cookie cutter, cut out the cookies. Using a smaller cookie cutter, cut out the centre of half of the batch. Place them on a prepared baking sheets.
  8. If ur cookies become soft, pop them back into the fridge and let it firm up. Reroll any scraps and cut out the remaining cookies.
  9. Bake the cookies about 12 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges. Remove from oven and place on wire rack to cool.
  10. Once the cookies are fully cooled, sprinkle icing sugar on the cookies that had their centre cut out.
  11. Spread thin layer of jam on the bottom surface of the full cookie, with the top of the cookie facing outside.
  12. Place both cookies together and gently sandwich them together. Using a small spoon, fill the cut out with a little more jam.
  13. Tips: If you want the cookies to stay crisp when eating, assemble the cookies on the day of serving. The cookies can be stored in an airtight container for several days.
  14. Makes 26 3 inch cookies. Recipe from JoyOfBaking.com

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