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Linzer Cookies Recipe

Jayanthy Asokan
Linzer cookies or Linzer Tarts are two buttery cookies sandwiched together with fruit preserves or jam.
5 from 2 votes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 17 minutes
Chilling Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 17 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine Austrian
Servings 15
Calories 80.8 kcal

Ingredients
 
 

  • cups all-purpose flour
  • 1.8 cups Almond meal (Badam powder)
  • 0.9 cups Butter (room temperature)
  • 0.5 cups Caster sugar
  • 2 tablespoon milk
  • ¾ cup Strawberry jam or any preserves
  • 1 ½ tablespoon Vanilla Extract
  • ¼ cup Confectioners sugar or Icing sugar (to dust)
  • ½ teaspoon salt

Instructions
 

  • Gather all the ingredients at room temperature.
  • Pulse whole Almond to coarse powder and add to all purpose flour and salt and sift together and keep aside.
  • Beat room temperature butter and caster sugar in an electric hand beater until light and fluffy. Add milk and vanilla extract and gently mix for a few seconds.
  • Then add all purpose flour and almond meal mixture little at a time until it is evenly mixed to form dough consistency.
  • Cover and chill the cookie dough for 20 to 30 minutes.
  • After chilling roll the dough on a parchment paper and cut to desired shape using cookie cutter.
  • To cut a round hole, use a nozzle or any small size cookie cutter as shown in the picture.
  • Refrigerate the shaped cut cookie for 20 to 30 minutes or freeze for 10 minutes. This helps to maintain the perfect shape of the cookie.
  • Preheat your oven to 180 C and bake the cookies for 15 to 17 minutes or until the edges turn brown in colour. Once cool, pipe strawberry jam ( any jam or fruit preserve) on backside of one whole cookie and place the cut cookie on top.
  • Sandwich all the cookies and dust confectioners sugar on top and serve with hot cup of milk, coffee or tea.

Notes

You can use whole almond, sliced almond or store-bought almond meal for these Linzer cookies. I used whole almond with skin and did not toast too. When grinding the nuts, pulse it intermittently and scrape the sides of the mixer jar with spatula. Do not run the mixer for long, as nuts start to release the oil. When sifting all-purpose flour and almond meal together use a ladle to push the flour almond mixture from the sieve. Chill the dough before shaping and after to keep up perfect shape. The filling is completely your palate preference.

Nutrition

Serving: 11 cookieCalories: 80.8kcalCarbohydrates: 16.2gProtein: 2.2gFat: 0.3gSaturated Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 0.2mgSodium: 78.9mgPotassium: 26.9mgFiber: 0.6gSugar: 0.3gVitamin A: 3.2IUCalcium: 5.6mgIron: 1mg
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