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Linzer Cookies Recipe | Linzer Torte Recipe

Linzer cookies made using basic flour, butter and sugar with jam. These are Austrian sandwich cookies.
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Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 15 cookies
Calories: 261kcal

Ingredients

  • ¾ cup Soft Unsalted Butter (170 grams)
  • 1 cup Sugar (200 grams)
  • 1 Egg
  • 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 3 cups All Purpose Flour / Maida (360 grams)
  • ½ tsp Baking Powder
  • ¼ tsp Salt
  • ½ cup Jam Use any of your favourite jam
  • 4 tbsp Icing Sugar / Confectioners Sugar

Instructions

  • Take butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and whip till creamy. Add in egg and whip again till mixed.
  • Add in flour, baking powder and salt and whip again till it is mixed into a soft dough.
  • Now wrap this in plastic and chill this for couple of hours.
  • Once the dough is chilled. Cut it in half.
  • Now preheat oven to 180 degree C.
  • Roll the dough into ¼ inch thickness and use a round cutter to cut out circles. Now use smaller cookie cutter to cut out some of the round circles to create a window pattern through which the jam can show when they are sandwiched.
  • Arrange it in a parchment lined baking tray.
  • Bake for 12 to 15 mins. If your cookies are thicker it may take upto 15 mins.
  • Now remove it from oven and cool it down completely.
  • Now take the whole cookies and arrange it bottom size up on a plate. Smear jam over it, now in the cut out top cookies sprinkle with icing sugar. Now sandwich the cookies together.
  • Now store this in an air tight container.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1cookies | Calories: 261kcal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 35mg | Sodium: 63mg | Potassium: 43mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 299IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 18mg | Iron: 1mg
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