Linzer Cookies – I Heart Eating

How to make linzer cookies

Here you’ll find step-by-step photos showing how to make this recipe. The full recipe, including instructions, is given below.

Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare two baking sheets by lining them with parchment paper. Set aside.

Step 2: In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix butter and powdered sugar on low for 30 seconds.

Step 3: Increase to medium speed and beat until light and fluffy, about 3 to 4 minutes.

Step 4: Add egg, vanilla, and almond extract, and mix in until combined.

Step 5: Add flour, almond flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix in until just combined. Do not overmix.

Step 6: Lightly flour a clean surface. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough to ⅛-inch thick.

Step 7: Using 2 ½-inch round cookie cutters, cut dough into circles.

Step 8: Transfer cut dough onto the prepared baking sheets.

Step 9: Re-roll the dough and continue cutting circles until all dough has been used.

Step 10: Using a 1-inch round cookie cutter (or large end of a piping tip), cut a circle out of the center of half the dough rounds to create a window on top of the cookies.

Step 11: Bake 10-15 minutes, or until lightly golden on the bottom.

Step 12: Let cookies cool completely.

Step 13: To fill the cookies, turn the cookies without the hole in the center flat-side up.

Step 14: Spoon ¾ teaspoon of raspberry jam in the center of each one, spreading it slightly.

Step 15: Dust extra powdered sugar on top of the cookies with the holes in the center.

Step 16: Carefully transfer one cookie with the hole at a time on top of the jam-filled cookies until they all create a sandwich with jelly in the middle.