Holiday Linzer Cookies

• Vegetarian

• Condiments

  • 15 oz Raspberry jam, good

• Baking & Spices

  • 5 cups All-purpose flour
  • 1 Powdered sugar
  • 1 1/8 cup Sugar
  • 2 tsp Vanilla extract, pure

• Dairy

  • 1 lb Butter, unsalted

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Description

Ingredients

• 1 pound unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup + 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 5 cups all-purpose flour*
• 15 ounces good raspberry jam
• Powdered sugar for dusting

Directions

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Cut the butter into small pieces and place it in a large bowl (or the bowl of a stand mixer) with the sugar. Beat on medium speed until lightened in color and fluffy. Add the vanilla extract and beat to incorporate. Add the flour and stir in gently with a spatula or wooden spoon until incorporated. Gather dough into your hands and shape into two balls. Youll need to give it a good squeeze to get it to hold together well. You can chill it for 20 minutes or so at this point or proceed directly. Dust work surface and rolling pin with flour and gently roll each dough ball into a thin disk, about 1/8 inch, but dont stress. Using a 2 1/2-inch round cookie/biscuit cutter, cut as many circles as you can. You should get between 90 and 100 in total, after you re-roll any scraps and use them to make a few more cookies. Using a small snowflake cookie cutter (or any small festive shape you like), cut into the center of half the circles. Remove the snowflakes to bake separately. Transfer cookies to cookie sheets lined with parchment and chill in the fridge for 15 minutes to help cookies retain their shape in the oven. Bake for 10-12 minutes, until very lightly golden. Remove from the oven and transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely. Cookies will keep well at this stage for a few days. The day you plan to present the cookies, spread a nice layer of jam over the flat (bottom) side of each of the intact circles. Heap a little bit of jam in the center and leave a little border around the edge. Dust the tops of the snowflake-cutout circles, as well as the snowflakes themselves, with plenty of powdered sugar. To assemble the cookies, gently press a cutout circle onto each jam-covered circle, which should help the jam fill in the snowflake shape and also spread to the outside edges of the cookies.