LINZER SABLES

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How to make Linzer Sables

Provided by @MakeItYours

Number Of Ingredients 15

1 cup of butter softened
1 cup of granulated sugar
1 large orange, zested
1 large lemon, zested
1 egg
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 1/2 cups of unbleached white flour
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon of ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon of ground cardamom
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1 cup of ground roasted nuts such as hazelnuts or almonds
1 cup of raspberry seedless jam or other yummy jam you have
Powdered sugar

Steps:

  • Put on some Christmas music and get out your favorite mixing bowl. Cream together with a blender, the butter and sugar till light and creamy. Beat in the zest, egg and vanilla. In another bowl whisk together all the dry ingredients, except the nuts, till well fluffed. On a medium setting on your mixer, carefully blend the dry ingredients into the wet till mixed. Slowly add the ground nuts till just blended. Pat the dough with wet fingers into a flat shape, (it's sticky!) then cover the dough and set in the fridge for 30 minutes to overnight to chill.
  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and get your dough out to party! Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface to about a 1/8 of an inch thick. This is sticky dough so make sure and flip the dough a few times while you are rolling it out so it doesn't stick to the counter. Cut out two cookies of each shape that will make up the sandwich Linzer cookie. Place them on a two lightly greased cookie sheets. Have all the top cookies on one cookie sheet and all the bottoms on another as the tops will cook faster than the bottoms. Then take a smaller cookie cutter and cut the center out of the top cookies for the "window" that will show the jam. Bake for 10 -12 minutes until golden brown. (Bake a little longer if you want a cookie that stays crisp.)
  • Let your little masterpieces cool completely then spread bottom cookies generously with the jam. Place the "window" cookie on top. Dust liberally with powdered sugar and have a joyous and delicious noel!

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