Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, linzer cookies. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Linzer Cookies is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Linzer Cookies is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
I have never made Linzer cookies before but was gifted the cookie cutters to make them, this recipe was great! Linzer Cookies take two almond flavored cookies and sandwiches them together with a layer of jam. Linzer Cookies are named after a Linzer Torte, which was originated in Linz, Austria.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have linzer cookies using 13 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Linzer Cookies:
- Prepare Cookies
- Take 150 grams ground almonds
- Prepare 260 grams all purpose flour/plain flour
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 zest of one small lemon
- Prepare 226 grams unsalted butter
- Take 150 grams granulated white sugar
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 2 large egg yolks
- Make ready Toppings
- Take 60 grams confectioners' /icing sugar
- Get 120 grams raspberry/black currant jam ( or other jams), well stirred
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Steps to make Linzer Cookies:
- Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C).
- In a bowl, sift flour, cinnamon, salt and lemon zest and mix them together.
- Using an electric hand mixer, or a stand mixer, cream butter.
- Add sugar to the creamed butter and continue to beat till light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla extract and egg yolks.
- Mix in the ground almonds and flour mixture.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bake the cookies about 12 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges. Remove from oven and place on wire rack to cool.
- Once the cookies are fully cooled, sprinkle icing sugar on the cookies that had their centre cut out.
- Spread thin layer of jam on the bottom surface of the full cookie, with the top of the cookie facing outside.
- Place both cookies together and gently sandwich them together. Using a small spoon, fill the cut out with a little more jam.
- 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.
- Makes 26 3 inch cookies. Recipe from JoyOfBaking.com
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