Linzer Cookies - Home Sweet Home Bake Along (3/100)

Week three of this 2 year adventure that Pigling Bland and I have started on. (Aside - do you think it's okay that I call her Pigling? She has self-styled as such in the bio of her blog, but in real life I'd certainly only ever call her Gill, hmmm.)

Anyway, a fairly standard cookie recipe, with a fairly ordinary method of manufacture, (cream butter and sugar, add rest of ingredients, chill, roll, chill, cut, bake,) in contrast with the last two bakes from Home Sweet Home.

I did ignore the instructions slightly, because I thought these looked better with a smaller centre cut out - the instructions advised one about twice as big, but I preferred the semi-jammy-dodger type look.

These are quite big biscuits really, about twice the size of your normal jammy dodger, but standard linzer cookie size (based on my somewhat limited experience - the coffee shop where I used to work sold them, but at £1.50 each I was somewhat reluctant to buy one...)

Linzer cookies have a spiced biscuit dough, which contains ground almonds, and are generally filled with raspberry or strawberry jam. I substituted the jam with wild plum and apple jelly, which I feel gives them just the right deep red centres. 

Ingredients:
280g unsalted butter, softened
150g caster sugar
380g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
60g ground almonds
200g seedless strawberry jam (or any red, smooth, jelly or jam)

Next week: Blackbottom Pie

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