Christmas Linzer Cookies

Ingredients

• 300g all-purpose flour
• 75g almond flour (or ground almonds)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 175g granulated sugar
• 225g butter, room temperature
• 1 egg, large
• 1 egg yolk, large
• zest of 1 lemon
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Jam (whatever jam you’d like to use as the filling)
• Icing sugar (to dust)

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the butter and sugar until pale and creamy. Then add the egg and egg yolk one at a time until incorporated. Add the lemon zest and vanilla.
3. Meanwhile, in a separate bowl, combine the almond flour, all-purpose flour, and salt.
4. Reduce the speed to low and add the flour mixture to the egg mixture. Continue to mix until it just comes together, but don’t over mix. Transfer the dough to a lightly floured countertop and bring it together to form a slightly flattened disk shape. Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
5. Roll the dough out onto a lightly floured countertop into your desired thickness. Use cookie cutters or a small round object to cut out the shapes. For the top layer of the cookie, use your smallest cookie cutter to cut out a small round in the middle. Place the cookies onto a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes.
6. Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
7. Place the cookies with the small cut outs (the top cookie) onto some parchment paper and dust with icing sugar. For the remaining cookies, spoon a small amount of jam in the middle and spread slightly. Top with the sugar-dusted cookies.