Linzer Cookies Recipe | Linzer Torte Recipe

Ingredients

• 3/4 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))
• 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 1/2 cup Jam (Use any of your favourite jam)
• 4 tbsp Icing Sugar / Confectioners Sugar

Instructions

1. 1

   Take butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and whip till creamy. Add in egg and whip again till mixed.

2. 2

   Add in flour, baking powder and salt and whip again till it is mixed into a soft dough.

3. 3

   Now wrap this in plastic and chill this for couple of hours.

4. 4

   Once the dough is chilled. Cut it in half.

5. 5

   Now preheat oven to 180 degree C.

6. 6

   Roll the dough into 1/4 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.

7. 7

   Arrange it in a parchment lined baking tray.

8. 8

   Bake for 12 to 15 mins. If your cookies are thicker it may take upto 15 mins.

9. 9

   Now remove it from oven and cool it down completely.

10. 10

    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.

11. 11

    Now store this in an air tight container.