Linzer Cookies

Name: Linzer Cookies
Total time: 3 h 35 min
Yield: 24 servings
Ingredients: ⅔ cup hazelnuts; ½ cup light brown sugar; 2½ cups all-purpose flour; ½ teaspoon baking powder; ½ teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon cinnamon; 1 cup unsalted butter; 1 whole egg; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 12 oz seedless raspberry jam; 1 set cookie cutters

Classic Austrian-style sandwich cookies made with hazelnut-enriched dough and filled with raspberry jam. These elegant cookies feature a decorative cutout top that reveals the jewel-toned jam filling.

24 servings

3 hr 35 min

Published October 4, 2025

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Ingredients

•⅔ cup hazelnuts
•½ cup light brown sugar
•2½ cups all-purpose flour
•½ teaspoon baking powder
•½ teaspoon salt
•¼ teaspoon cinnamon
•1 cup unsalted butter
•1 whole egg
•1 teaspoon vanilla
•12 oz seedless raspberry jam
•1 set cookie cutters

Cooking Instructions

1.
Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F.
10 min
2.
Toast hazelnuts in a shallow baking pan until fragrant and skins begin to loosen, about 6 minutes. Rub nuts in a kitchen towel to remove any loose skins (some skins may not come off), then cool to room temperature.
15 min
3.
Pulse nuts and 1/4 cup brown sugar in a food processor until nuts are finely ground.
3 min
4.
Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon in a small bowl.
2 min
5.
Beat together butter and remaining 1/4 cup brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes in a stand mixer (preferably fitted with paddle) or 6 minutes with a handheld. Add nut mixture and beat until combined well, about 1 minute. Beat in egg and vanilla. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture, mixing until just combined.
10 min
6.
With floured hands, form dough into 2 balls and flatten each into a 5-inch disk. Chill disks, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, at least 2 hours.
120 min
7.
Put oven racks in upper and lower thirds of oven and preheat oven to 350°F.
10 min
8.
Roll out 1 disk of dough into an 11-inch round (1/8 inch thick) between 2 sheets of wax paper (keep remaining dough chilled). If dough becomes too soft to roll out, rewrap in plastic and chill until firm. Cut out as many cookies as possible from dough with larger cookie cutter and transfer to 2 ungreased large baking sheets, arranging about 1 inch apart. Using smaller cutters, cut out centers from half of the cookies, reserving centers and rerolling along with scraps (reroll only once). Bake cookies, switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until edges are golden, 10 to 15 minutes total, then transfer with a metal spatula to racks to cool completely. Make more cookies from second disk.
30 min
9.
Spread about 1 teaspoon jam on flat side of 1 solid cookie and sandwich jam with flat side of 1 windowed cookie. Sandwich remaining cookies in same manner.
15 min

Cooking Instructions

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F.

10 min

Toast hazelnuts in a shallow baking pan until fragrant and skins begin to loosen, about 6 minutes. Rub nuts in a kitchen towel to remove any loose skins (some skins may not come off), then cool to room temperature.

15 min

Pulse nuts and 1/4 cup brown sugar in a food processor until nuts are finely ground.

3 min

Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon in a small bowl.

2 min

Beat together butter and remaining 1/4 cup brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes in a stand mixer (preferably fitted with paddle) or 6 minutes with a handheld. Add nut mixture and beat until combined well, about 1 minute. Beat in egg and vanilla. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture, mixing until just combined.

10 min

With floured hands, form dough into 2 balls and flatten each into a 5-inch disk. Chill disks, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, at least 2 hours.

120 min

Put oven racks in upper and lower thirds of oven and preheat oven to 350°F.

10 min

Roll out 1 disk of dough into an 11-inch round (1/8 inch thick) between 2 sheets of wax paper (keep remaining dough chilled). If dough becomes too soft to roll out, rewrap in plastic and chill until firm. Cut out as many cookies as possible from dough with larger cookie cutter and transfer to 2 ungreased large baking sheets, arranging about 1 inch apart. Using smaller cutters, cut out centers from half of the cookies, reserving centers and rerolling along with scraps (reroll only once). Bake cookies, switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until edges are golden, 10 to 15 minutes total, then transfer with a metal spatula to racks to cool completely. Make more cookies from second disk.

30 min

Spread about 1 teaspoon jam on flat side of 1 solid cookie and sandwich jam with flat side of 1 windowed cookie. Sandwich remaining cookies in same manner.

15 min