“Buttery almondy flavoured cookies which are cut out and taste amazing. Linzer cookies are filled with jam and sandwiched together. Perfect Almond Cookies for any parties or occasions”
You can never have too many kinds of Christmas cookies, especially when they’re as good as these ones. This Almond cookie is originated from Austria, the Linzer Kekse!
Linzer cookies is a popular cookie recipe. Linzer Kekse is a buttery almond flour cookies dough cut out using cookie cutter. These cookies has a powdered sugar dusting on top with a jam filling in the center. Traditionally they use raspberry, strawberry or blackcurrant jam. But you can use any jam as you like.
There is another version of the same cookie, called as linzer torte. This cookie is a traditional Austrian pastry, a form of shortcake topped with fruit preserves and sliced nuts with a lattice design on top. It is named after the city of Linz, Austria.
Check out this Another Version of Linzer Cookies
HOW TO MAKE LINZER TORTE(Almond Flour Cookies)
- Make dough by mixing butter, sugar, vanilla, almond extract and egg yolk.
- Add flour, almond flour and cinnamon.
- Refrigerate the dough for an hour.
- Roll the dough into a sheet like.
- Cut it into cookie like using cookie cutters.
- Bake them till light golden.
- Dust top with some confectioners sugar.
- Fill them with jam and sandwich with another cookie.
- Enjoy.
(source:wiki) Linzer torte is a very short, crumbly pastry made of flour, unsalted butter, egg yolks, lemon zest, cinnamon and lemon juice, and ground nuts, usually hazelnuts, but even walnuts or almonds are used, covered with a filling of redcurrant, raspberry, or apricot preserves. Unlike most tortes, it is typically single layered like a pie or tart. It is covered by a lattice of thin dough strips placed atop the fruit. The pastry is brushed with lightly beaten egg whites, baked, and garnished with nuts.
Linzer torte is a holiday treat in the Austrian, Hungarian, Swiss, German, and Tirolean traditions, often eaten at Christmas. Some North American bakeries offer Linzer torte as small tarts or as cookies
Linzer cookie (German: Linzer Augen, “Linzer eyes”) or Linzer tarts are a sandwich cookie version, topped with a layer of dough with a characteristic circle shaped cut-out exposing the fruit preserves, and dusted with confectioner’s sugar.
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TIPS FOR MAKING PERFECT LINZER COOKIE
- Don’t over bake the cookie. The cookie will look soft when it comes out of the oven, as it cools it will harden.
- Use strawberry jam for bright red colour filling.
- Dust the cookie tops with icing sugar as soon as it comes out of the oven.
BAKE AHEAD AND STORAGE
You can make the Almond Flour cookies in advance and store wrapped tightly in fridge. You can store the cookies in fridge for upto a week.
Linzer cookies can be stored at room temperature for 4 to 5 days.
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Spatula
- Whisk
Ingredients
- 1 cup All Purpose Flour
- ½ cup Almond Flour
- 1 Egg yolk
- 100 grams Unsalted butter
- ½ tsp Cinnamon powder
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- ½ tsp Almond Extract
- ½ cup Sugar
- 1 cup Jam
- 1/2 cup Icing sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degree C.
- Take butter, sugar, vanilla and almond extract in a bowl. Mix till creamy.
- Add in egg yolk and mix well till combined.
- Add in cinnamon powder and mix well.
- Add in almond flour, regular flour and fold gently till combined like a dough.
- Dust some flour over the counter, roll it little thin. Cut using cookie cutter. Use a large and small cookie cutter to cut out cookies.
- Arrange it in a baking tray and bake for 12 to 13 mins.
- Remove and cool completely.
- Dust the top of the cookie with icing sugar.
- Spoon jam over the cookie and sandwich with other cookies.
- Serve.
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Notes
- You can make the dough 2 to 3 days in advance and store them tightly wrapped in fridge.
- Use any shaped cookie cutter to make the cookies.
- This cookies can be stored at room temperature for 4 to 5 days.
- Use can use any fruit jam as filling.
- You can wrap the cookie individually in plastic covers and tie them with ribbons.
TIPS FOR MAKING PERFECT LINZER COOKIES
- Don't over bake the cookie. The cookie will look soft when it comes out of the oven, as it cools it will harden.
- Use strawberry jam for bright red colour filling.
- Dust the cookie tops with icing sugar as soon as it comes out of the oven.
BAKE AHEAD AND STORAGE
You can make the cookies in advance and store wrapped tightly in fridge. You can store the cookies in fridge for upto a week. Linzer cookies can be stored at room temperature for 4 to 5 days.Nutrition
Pictorial:
1)Take all your ingredients. Make sure all the ingredients are at room temperature.
2)Take soft unsalted butter in a bowl.
3)Add in sugar.
4)Mix well till creamy.
5)Add in almond extract.
6)Add in vanilla extract
7)Add in egg yolk.
8)Mix well
9)Now it is creamy.
10)Add in cinnamon powder
11)Add in almond powder. Check this link for Homemade Almond flour
12)Add in all purpose flour
13)Mix well till combined
14)Roll the dough into a sheet.
15)I used these heart shaped cutter.
16)Cut using cookie cutter.
17)Remove the cut cookies carefully.
18)Remove it carefully.
19)Arrange it in a baking tray
20)Bake for few minutes.
21)Mix jam in a bowl till creamy.
22)Dust the top of the cookie with icing sugar.
23)Spoon the jam over the cookies
24)Cover it other cookie
25)Cookie done
26)Serve
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