Raspberry Linzer Thumbprint Cookies Recipes

RASPBERRY LINZER COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon together in a bowl using a whisk.
• Beat white sugar and butter together with an electric mixer on high in a bowl until light and fluffy; add egg substitute and vanilla extract. Beat until well blended.
• Gradually beat flour mixture into sugar-butter mixture until dough is soft. Divide dough into 2 equal balls and wrap each portion in plastic wrap. Chill dough in refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Roll 1 dough ball into a 1/8-inch thick rectangle on a lightly floured surface; cut into 32 cookies using a square, star, or circular cookie cutter. Repeat with the second dough ball. Cut out the center of 32 cookies using a 1-inch square cookie cutter. Arrange all 64 cookies on the prepared baking sheets about 1 inch apart.
• Bake cookies in the preheated oven until edges are lightly browned, about 10 minutes. Cool on pans for 5 minutes before transferring cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
• Spread about 1/2 teaspoon raspberry jam into the center of each whole cookie. Sprinkle the cut-out cookies with confectioners' sugar; place 1 cut-out cookie atop each raspberry jam-topped cookie.

RASPBERRY LINZER THUMBPRINT COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C). Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl; set aside.
• Mix margarine with sugars in large bowl. Mix in eggs and vanilla until blended. Gradually add in flour mixture; mix just until blended. Stir in almonds and lemon peel. Drop by tablespoonfuls on ungreased baking sheets, 2 inches (5 cm) apart.
• Bake 7 minutes or until edges are golden. Immediately make an indentation in centres of cookies with the back of a round measuring spoon. Cool cookies on sheets for 2 minutes on a wire rack; remove cookies from sheets and cool completely.
• Sprinkle with icing sugar, then fill indentations evenly with jam; about a half teaspoon each.

RASPBERRY LINZER COOKIES

Steps:

• Several hours before baking: In a food processor, process the almonds and hazelnuts with 1/2 c of the flour until fine textured, but NOT powdered (To avoid overprocessing, stop the machine occasionally and feel the nuts; they may look like they are still chunky, but they may just be clumping together).
• Add the remain flour and other dry ingredients along with the zest.
• Pulse to combine.
• Cut the butter into 1/2-inch cubes and add to the flour mixture; pulse until the mixture looks like coarse meal.
• Don't overprocess.
• Transfer to a large bowl.
• Whisk together the egg and water; sprinkle over the flour mixture and toss gently to combine.
• The dough should hold together when pinched (if it seems dry, sprinkle on a bit more water).
• Gather the dough into two balls and knead briefly just to blend.
• Wrap in plastic and chill until firm, 2-3 hours.
• TO BAKE: Oven to 325 degrees F.
• Cover your cookie sheets with parchment.
• Generously flour a work surface.
• Roll one ball of dough out 3/16" thick.
• (Keep the rest of the dough in the refrigerator, and if the dough warms up to the point of being sticky while you are working with it, return it to the fridge to chill.) Cut as many of the larger shape as possible out of the dough, rerolling the scraps to make more rounds.
• Arrange on the cookie sheets about 3/4 inch apart.
• Use the small cookie cutter to cut holes in the center of half of the cookies.
• Reroll these little scraps to make more cookies.
• Bake the cookies until the edges are lightly brown, about 15 minutes.
• Let cool on the pans before transferring to cookie racks.
• Repeat with remaining dough.
• To assemble, sift powdered sugar over the cookies with the holes cut in them, then spread a heaping 1/2 tsp.
• of preserves on the bottom of the whole cookie rounds.
• Sandwich the cookies together.
• NOTE: These cookies should be served the day they are put together.
• You can bake the cookies a week early, then sandwich them together a few hours before serving.
• NOTE 2: The dough for this cookie is kind of a pain to work with, and it takes patience, but I promise you, the end result is so worth it.