Dennis, a.k.a. Noskos made a great choice this week. Please visit his blog, Living The Life, for the recipe.
‘Tis the season for baking cookies. I was so excited to try these cookies. I have fond memories of my friend making some Linzer cookies during the Holidays and generously sharing a few with me. They are rather time consuming to make. Not hard; they just require a bit of time.
I have had an aversion to rolling out cookies for the past few years because I didn’t have counter space sufficient for much of anything, let alone rolling out cookies.
My new kitchen (if it’s ever clean enough for a photo shoot, I’ll post pictures) has a bit more space.
The dough was really good. Next time I will use almond meal instead of grinding up my own almonds. You can see that they weren’t as finely chopped as they probably should have been. I was afraid I would end up with almond butter.
I used my tiny, 2″ star cutter and a pastry tip, like Dorie suggests in the recipe, to make a hole in the center.
For sake of simplicity, I used some seedless strawberry jam to fill the cookies. (Raspberry is my favorite in any instance, but especially in Linzer cookies.)
The bottoms and the tops.
I can’t wait to take these pretty cookies to my neighbor this afternoon. I know how much she loves jam and cookies.
Next week: Sugar Cookies
24 Comments
super réussis et ils sont super beaux :)
Lovely looking cookies!! Perfect for this month!
I agree about the almonds… I wanted it to be smoother than I could get it at home.
So cute! I want to try minis next time, too!
So tiny and cute.
Those are super pretty. I love the star shape, it’s so festive!
Great photos! The cookies look delicious!
So you finaly found the time to make these! I’m so glad… because a TWD wouldn’t be the same without your oh! so beautiful baking! Very pretty! Enjoy your new kitchen… I’m anxious to see it!
GREAT looking cookies. I really like the stars. I kinda liked the slight crunch from possibly not grinding the nuts enough.
They look marvelous. I almost used almond flour, but ground up my almonds and ended up with a texture similar to yours. My husband loved that.
These are soooo cute! They are perfect little cookies.
Your linzer sables look pefect. I like the stars!
Beautiful job on these!
Your little Linzer Sables look picture perfect Lindsey!!! Very well done!
Your cookies look gorgeous!
Those are lovely – and I think the strawberry jam adds a nice pop of festive color. I also will use pre-ground nut meal next time – the nut chunks were a tad too rustic for me.
Your linzer cookies look really good… and great photos too!
Truly a pretty cookie. I like how small yours are.
Your cookies are perfect! The jam really pops out! I agree next time I am going to buy almond meal mine just didn’t get fine enough.
Lovely – your dough looks exactly like mine did. Must be the almond flour.
They’re lovely! I like your star cutter.
I absolutely love your stars. They are the perfect size. This recipe is perfect for the holidays, these would be a great gift. Yummy!
Beautiful cookies and pictures as usual :-) Glad you liked them!
These looks so beautiful! I’m glad you enjoyed them :)
They’re tiny little cuties! Fun.