Christmas Cookies: Linzer Cookies Recipe

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Christmas Cookies: Linzer Cookies Recipe

Ingredients

• ½ cup finely chopped hazelnuts without the skin or hazelnut flour
• 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour or cake flour
• 1 tbsp cinnamon powder
• 1 tsp baking powder
• A pinch of salt
• 1 cup pecansor other nuts, finely ground
• 1 ¼ sticks butter at room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• Some all-purpose flour for working the dough
• Powdered sugar
• Any red preserve, like raspberry or strawberry

Linzer Cookies Directions:

1. Take your pecans or other nuts and use a food processor to grind them into fine powder (like flour), together with ½ cup of the flour. Don’t over-process them or they will become wet due to the nut oil.
2. In a large bowl, mix together the finely ground hazelnuts and pecans (nut flours), the remaining 2 cups flour, cinnamon, baking powder and the pinch of salt.
3. With an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar until you have a nice, fluffy and light-colored mixture. This should take about 5 minutes of beating. Now it’s time to add the egg. Reduce the speed of the electric mixer and slowly beat in the flour mixture. You should now have some nice dough. Divide the dough into two parts and shape each one into a disc, wrap them in plastic wrap and put them into the refrigerator for two hours minimum and up to two weeks. You can also freeze the dough for about a month until you are ready to make the cookies.
4. When ready to make them, preheat your oven to 325 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
5. Lightly flour your working surface so the dough won’t stick. Roll out the dough to about 1/8 inch thickness. It’s a good idea to put your rolled out dough in the refrigerator for another 20 minutes, so it’s easier to cut the shapes out. Now cut out star shapes (or other shapes). Cut out a smaller star shape (or other) at the center of every second cookie (you will need two cookies to make one Linzer cookie: one uncut and one with a cut-out). Transfer them to the baking sheet. Let about 2 inches of space between each cookie.
6. Bake them for 13-14 minutes or until pale gold and let them cool on the baking sheet on wire racks for about 10 minutes. Then transfer the cookies to the racks and let them cool down completely.
7. When you’re ready to serve them, dust the cookies with the cut-out with powdered sugar. Spread about ½ tsp of preserves onto the center of the uncut cookie and top it with the cookie with the cut-out.

Making these Christmas Cookies will bring you in a most Christmas mood.

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Put on some seasonal music and just enjoy making and decorating. Kids can easily help cutting them out and assembling them, so you can have some nice, atmospheric family time this holiday. They also make some great home-made gifts since they don’t only look so wonderful snowy, but they taste delicious, too!

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Christmas Dessert: Wreath Shaped Cookies

Image via: Martha Stewart

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Yields: 84 servings

Total time: Preparation 1 hour + Chilling + Baking

Ingredients

2 cups softened butter

3 cups powdered sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla essence

5 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 ½ teaspoons cream of tartar

Frosting

8 cups powdered sugar

1 cup shortening

2 teaspoons maple extract

½ cup milk

Pinch of red food coloring

Pinch of green food coloring

Procedure

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1. In a medium bowl, cream butter and powdered sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. In a separate bowl combine flour, cream of tartar, and baking soda. Slowly add it to the creamed mixture and blend well. Divide it into four equal portions. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle.
2. Lightly flour the surface, and roll out one portion to ¼ inch thickness. Cut using a floured 2- ½ inches round cookie cutter. Place it 1 inch apart on lined baking sheets. Slowly cut out centers using a floured 1 inch round cookie cutter.
3. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Allow it cool for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks. Repeat with the remaining dough.
4. For frosting, in a medium bowl, combine the powdered sugar, maple extract, shortening, and milk to achieve consistency.
5. In a small bowl, place ¾ cup frosting; color with red food coloring. Color the remaining frosting green. Using a decorating tip, pipe green frosting over cookies. With a smaller decorating tip, pipe red bows onto the wreaths.

Add a special holiday touch to your tray of sweets with these festive Christmas dessert. Like always, don’t fear experimenting. Use colors of your choice and decorate it the way you like.