If you give this recipe a try, please let us know what you think! Give it some stars or leave a comment. Gluten free, dairy free, refined sugar free and paleo. They are a beautiful and festive holiday cookie made healthier. Making these soft and buttery gluten free linzer cookies is lots of fun. Store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days, let come to room temperature for best eating. Don’t cover with plastic wrap or put in an air tight container, they will get soggy. Store the cookies at room temperature for 1 day without any cover or lightly cover with aluminum foil. ![]() If you don’t have cookie cutters use a mason jar and a small bottle top. The top of the bottle of vanilla works well. The only drawback is you have to remove the dough from the little cut out after every 2 cookies.Īlternatively, use any cookie cutter you have and a small bottle top to make the cut out. These are good because they have nice small shapes for the cookie window cut out. Once your tray is filled with cookies, finally pop the entire cookie sheet in the freezer for 5 minutes to re-chill the dough before baking. Repeat the process to make use of all of the dough. Re-roll any dough scraps that remain and put the dough back into the freezer before cutting more cookie shapes. Remove the dough from the freezer and cut out your desired shapes with your cookie cutters (half solid shapes, half with cut-out “windows”) and place them on a parchment lined baking sheet. If the dough is warm it will stick to your cookie cutters and the shapes get messy. Cold dough will not stick to the cookie cutters. You don’t want it too thick.īefore cutting the cookies into shapes put the rolled piece of dough into the freezer for 5-10 minutes. Roll the dough between 2 pieces of parchment about 1/4 inch thick. This way you can roll out one ball and the second one stays chilled. Once you make the dough, divide it into 2 balls. THE MOST IMPORTANT TIP IS DOUGH MUST BE COLD. You can follow the recipe card below for the exact steps but here I want give you some tips to make your cookies come out perfectly. ![]() These holiday cookies taste and look like the ones you buy from a bakery but they are much healthier, gluten free, dairy free, refined sugar free and paleo. I choose organic jam since berries are heavily sprayed. I use raspberry jam but any flavor jam will work. They are sweetened with maple syrup and the powdered sugar on top is made with powdered maple sugar (recipe below) or organic powdered sugar. I use almond flour, tapioca flour, coconut oil, pastured egg, almond extract, vanilla extract and orange zest to give the cookies a shortbread-like texture and rich nutty flavor. Here I take the traditional Linzer cookie and upgrade the recipe with healthier ingredients. Linzer cookies are a smaller version of the Linzer torte formed into a cookie sandwich with raspberry jam filling topped with powdered sugar. The tart is made with ground almonds, topped with fruit preserves and a lattice design on top. Linzer cookies come from the Linzertorte an Austrian dessert named after the city of Linz.
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