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Raspberry Linzer Cookie Sandwiches

Course: Christmas Cookie
Cuisine: Canadian
Author: Valerie Lugonja

Ingredients

  • 2 c unbleached hazelnuts (outer skins rubbed off)
  • 1 pound butter
  • 1 c sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 t vanilla
  • 4 ¼ c flour
  • 2 t BP
  • 2 t cinnamon
  • ½ t nutmeg
  • ½ t salt
  • Seedless raspberry jam for filling
  • Icing sugar for dusting

Instructions

Prepare Hazelnuts:

  • Preheat oven to 375°F
  • Place hazelnuts on baking sheet; toast for 10 minutes
  • Remove and immediately place in clean towel; rub vigorously to remove skins
  • Cool completely; grind finely in food processor

Cookie Dough:

  • Beat butter and sugar until fluffy; add eggs, one at a time
  • Add vanilla; beat another 3-5 minutes
  • Whisk dry ingredients together; add to wet ingredients until “just” combined
  • Form into two flattened discs, wrap with plastic wrap; refrigerate
  • and cut shapes, as many bottoms as tops; tops will have a decorative hole cut into them
  • Bake at 350°F for 7 minutes; match tops to bottoms
  • Freeze in tightly wrapped container
  • Before serving, dust tops with icing sugar; add a small dollop of jam to bottoms, placing dusted top carefully over bottom to expose red jam in centre cut