Vegan Linzer Cookies
Buttery almond flavored cookies with a peekaboo of festive jam and powdered sugar on top.
Prep Time10 minutes mins
Cook Time12 minutes mins
Chill Time4 hours hrs
Total Time4 hours hrs 22 minutes mins
Servings: 12 cookies
Author: Kathy Patalsky
2 cookie cutters
1 Rolling Pin
2 parchment papers
2 baking sheets
plastic wrap
WET
- ½ cup vegan butter softened
- ½ cup vegan egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup cane sugar
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- ½ -1 teaspoon citrus zest
DRY
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 ¼ cups almond flour
- 1 cup flour AP
TOPPINGS
- ⅓ cup raspberry jam
- ⅓ cup powdered sugar
Beat together all wet ingredients in a mixer. Gently beat in the dry ingredients until a thick, yet wet dough forms.
Transfer the dough to a sheet of plastic wrap and wrap into a ball. Seal tightly.
Chill dough in the fridge for at least two hours, overnight is best.
Day of baking, warm oven to 350 degrees and place parchment on your baking sheets.
Roll out dough on a heavily floured surface. Flour rolling pin as well. Roll to a bit let than desired cookie thickness since cookies will rise a bit upon baking.
Cut out both the main cookies and then half of the cookies get the Linzer eye cutout as well.
Bake cookies for twelve minutes. Cool on a cooling rack.
Dust the cookie tops in powdered sugar.
Fill the cookie bottoms with jam and add the tops. Repeat with all cookies.
Serve!
Calories: 237kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.04g | Sodium: 113mg | Potassium: 73mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 360IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 46mg | Iron: 1mg