Photo: Linzer Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 3/4 cups butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon rind
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups finely ground hazelnuts or almonds
- 2 1/4 cups cake flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 6 ounces raspberry jam
- Powdered sugar
Directions
Cream butter with paddle attachment. Add sugar and continue creaming. Add the egg, lemon, and vanilla and mix. Add nuts and mix. Stir together dry ingredients in a bowl and add to mixer and blend. Form into disks, wrap and chill. Roll out dough with floured rolling pin to 1/8-inch thickness on a well floured surface. Cut out disks, fluted if desired, approximately 2 inches in diameter. Cut out the centers of half the disks with a cutter in the shape of your choice. Re-roll scraps and repeat. Chill cut out dough. Bake in an oven preheated to 350 degrees F for 12 minutes or until edges turn golden then cool on a wire rack. Heat the jam and spread the solid disks with a layer of the hot jam. Glue on the lids pressing down lightly. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, then fill the holes with more jam. Let set slightly before serving.
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By StormyHaze
Westminster, CA
on December 25, 2010
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How would I go about getting that ridges shape? Is there a particular item i could use?
By big_m54_12423184
Concord, 43
on January 03, 2010
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A very delicious and easy dessert! I loved making the!
By dcain29_7919455
Lake Forest, CA
on December 24, 2009
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I was confused on whether it was 1 1/2 cups whole almonds ground up or 1 1/2 cups ground almonds. I measured out 1 1/2 cups whole almonds and ground them and then measured the quantity. The amount was greater than 1 1/2 cups. I think this is why some people found them dry and crumbly, they did not re-measure the whole nuts after they were ground but I could be wrong. I reduced the amount of ground nuts to 1 1/2 cups. I did not add the lemon peel because I don't like it. I used Knott's Berry Farm seedless raspberry jam. They turned out very nice although I am not sure I used the linzer cutter correctly. The directions were in German so I had to guess. They make a very pretty cookie.
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