My favorite holiday cookie!
Linzer Cookies
The most festive and delicious cookie for the holidays!
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound cream cheese
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 large egg yolks
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 t. salt
- 1 t. vanilla
- 1 jar best-quality raspberry jam
Instructions
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Prepare the dough at least 4 hours or overnight in advance.
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In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the cream cheese, butter, and sugar. Add the eggs and blend until smooth.
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In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour and salt.
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Add the flour mixture and the vanilla to the cream cheese mixture, blend until smooth, being careful not to over mix.
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Roll the dough into a ball, flatten into a disk, wrap in wax paper and refrigerate until ready to bake.
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Preheat the oven to 350º.
In a saucepan set over low heat, warm the raspberry jam. Remove from heat. Cool.
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On a lightly floured Silpat, roll out the dough to 1/8" thickness. Cut into rounds and cut out stars in half of the rounds.
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Bake for 12-14 minutes. Remove from oven and cool on wires racks.
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Spread a bit of the raspberry jam on the whole circles. On a separate wire rack, sprinkle the star-cutout circles with confectioners' sugar and place one on each raspberry topped circles.
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