Cookies will keep for up to several days in a air-tight container.Dust with confectioner's sugar and serve! Once the cookies have cooled, evenly spread about 2 teaspoons worth of jam on the bottom cookies and top with cookies with holes in them.Remove and carefully transfer to a wire rack to cook completely. Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, just until the edges began to take on a light golden color.*I used an apple corer to get the smaller center circle. For half of those cookies, cut out the center (these will be the tops). Cut out cookies with a 2-inch cookie cutter of your choice. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the chilled dough until about 1/8-inch thick.and line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Wrap in clingfilm or wax paper and refrigerate for about 30 minutes - 1 hour. Turn out on a lightly-floured surface and shape into a disk. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix to combine. Mix together egg, honey, coconut oil, almond extract, and vanilla extract in a large bowl. Add almond flour, coconut flour baking soda, and salt to a medium bowl. Beat on low until a soft dough comes together. Preheat oven to 325F and line baking sheet with parchment paper. Add cardamom, vanilla, egg, and egg yolk. In the bowl of your mix master, beat butter and sugar until combined.Just be sure to finish them off with a generous dusting of powdered sugar in the end. You can use raspberry, strawberry, apricot, black current, even marmalade which I think would also work fabulously with the cardamom. It's such a subtle taste too which plays well into the sweetness of the jam filling.Īs for the dough, I used shortening and butter to ensure an extra soft cookie. The warm, fragrant spice adds a taste of the holidays that is unexpected but delicious. For starters, I added a pinch of cardamom to the dough. There are a few variations to Linzer Cookies as expected and I made a few subtle changes myself to today's recipe. I was making sugar cookies and decided to make a cutout jam cookie, and thus today's recipe came to be.

Sometimes I'll make thumbprints but this year I was craving a Linzer Cookie. Over the past few years I've made Italian Butter Cookies which are also a family favorite. Linzer Tart Cookies use almost the same recipe. Linzer Tart Cookies or Linzer Sables are descendants of the Linzertorte, which originated in Linz, Austria and is a traditional European Christmas pastry. It truly feels like Christmas around here when I bake my first batch of jam cookies. Special Equipment: Electric mixer recommended, Linzer tart cookie cutters or one cookie-sized cutter and one extra-small cutter for center hole.

Over the years, different variations were created, and the most common is a red fruit jam sprinkled with powdered sugar.įor me, jam cookies are a holiday staple. Wilton Linzer Cookie Cutter Set, 7-Piece 4.5 (379) 1258 14.99 FREE delivery Wed, Mar 8 on 25 of items shipped by Amazon Only 6 left in stock - order soon. Then in the city of Linz, bakers recreated the dough but instead made various cutouts and create mini tartes, or as we know them now, sandwich cookies. The origins of the Linzer Cookie actually began in the form of a tart with a black current preserve and quickly became a holiday tradition in Austria.