Linzer cookies.
You can cook Linzer cookies using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Linzer cookies
- Prepare 200 grams of butter.
- It's 380 grams of flour.
- Prepare 200 grams of powdered sugar.
- Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 80 grams of almonds flour.
- Prepare 1 of apricot jam or strawberry jam.
- Prepare 4 of egg yolks.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
- It's 1 pinch of of salt.
- It's 1 of lemon... ONLY ZEST.
Linzer cookies instructions
- In a bowl of an electric mixer, mix the butter (room temperature) until creamy.
- Add the powdered sugar and mix. Than add in the same bowl, the egg yolks, vanilla extract, lemon or orange zest and mix for 2 minutes..
- Add the almonds flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt. Mix!.
- Finally add the flour all at once. Mix on low speed until the dough starts to come together. Dump onto a surface dusted with flour and shape into a flat disk. Wrap in plastic and pit it in the fridge for 20 minutes..
- Roll the dough 1/4 inch and cut 2 3/4 inch rounds with a plain or fluted cutter. With 1/2 of the rounds, cut a hole from the middle of each round with a heart or round small shape. I cut them with a star shape...
- Place all the cookies on an ungreased baking sheet and chill for 15 minutes..
- Bake the cookies until the edges begin to brown. Allow to cool to room temperature..
- Spread apricot or strawberry jam on the flat side of each solid cookie. Dust the top of cut-out cookies with powdered sugar and press the flat sides together with the raspberry jam in the middle and the powdered sugar on the top.
- Enjoy them with your family!.