Honey-Vanilla Linzer Cookies
Delicate sandwich cookies made with honey-vanilla sablé dough, filled with jam and dusted with powdered sugar. These elegant Linzer cookies feature a decorative cutout top that showcases the colorful jam filling.
Ingredients
- •1 log Honey-Vanilla Sablé Dough
- •⅔ cup any flavor jam, strained
- •½ cup Powdered sugar
- •1 piece pastry tip or cookie cutter
Cooking Instructions
- 1.
Press down on log with your palms to create a flat surface; roll log over and press down again. Repeat once more so you have a neat triangle. Freeze until very firm but not frozen solid, about 1 hour.
60 min
- 2.
Place racks in upper and lower thirds of oven; preheat to 325°F. Unwrap dough and cut into very thin slices (1/8" or thinner if possible), rotating every few slices to keep triangular shape. Place on 2 parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing 2" apart. Use pastry tip or cookie cutter to punch out centers of half the cookies.
15 min
- 3.
Bake cookies, rotating baking sheets halfway through, until evenly golden brown all over, 10-15 minutes. Let cool on baking sheets.
15 min
- 4.
Spread about 3/4 tsp. jam across entire surface of each unpunched cookie. Dust tops of cutout cookies with powdered sugar; place on top of jam, sugar side up.
15 min
- 5.
Cookies can be baked (but not assembled) 2 days ahead. Store airtight at room temperature.
1 min
