Ingredients:
- All-purpose flour – 1 ½ cup
- Almond flour – ½ cup
- Room temperature Butter – ½ cup + 2 tbsp
- Granulated sugar – ½ cup
- Egg – 1 no
- Salt – a pinch
- Lemon zest – 1 tsp
- Almond essence – ½ tsp
Cookie Filling/ Berry Jam:
- Strawberry/ raspberry/ blackberry – 1 cup
- Granulated sugar – ½ cup
- Lemon juice- 1 tsp
Procedure:
Filling Procedure:
- In a heavy bottomed sauce pan, add the berries and sugar. Cook until it become thick consistency. Add a tsp of lemon juice to avoid crystallization.
- Cool completely and strain out the seeds with any strainer and refrigerate at least for 2 hours.
Cookie Procedure:
- Pre heat the oven to 350 degree F
- In a bowl, add the sieved all-purpose flour, almond flour and a pinch of salt and keep aside.
- In a wide mixing bowl, add the room temperature softened butter along with granulated sugar. Beat until light and creamy
- Now add the lemon zest, almond essence and one room temperature egg. Beat until it combined.
- At this point, gradually add the dry mixture and mix until it combined together.
- Wrap the dough into the plastic wrap and refrigerate it at least for an hour.
- Place the dough over a flour dusted working area. Roll out the dough about ¼ inch thick evenly.
- Use any desired shape cookie cutter and cut it accordingly.
- Half of your cookies should have small round/ star/ heart shape cut out of the center.
- Place them on a parchment lined cookie sheet and freeze them at least for 10-15 mins to hold its shape.
- Bake the cookies for about 10-12 mins or until the edges are become slightly brown.
- Cool completely.
- Add about ½ a tsp of jam to each cookie base (plain one) and place the (center cut out) cookie gently over the top and slightly push the jam to spread towards the edges.
- Finally dust it with some powdered sugar before serve.
- The super-yummy and jammie “LINZER COOKIES” are ready for party.
NOTE/TIP:
- You can even use store bought JAM
- Since we are adding JAM, the shelf life of this cookie is very less. Mostly by one or two days. Otherwise it will become soggy.
