Linzer Hearts
Here's another fun Valentine's recipe. Anina in my cooking class came up with this one. During class she suggested that the Black and White Cookies we were preparing could also be turned into linzer hearts by replacing the chocolate with raspberry jam and making a couple of other changes.
I liked this idea so much that it took great discipline for me to stay in the room, rather than running out to the nearest grocery store to grab a bottle of raspberry jam for us to begin experimenting right then and there in the middle of class.
However, I restrained myself and waited until I got home. I had a bit of dinner and then baked up a batch of these --they were quite tasty, making a great tea cookie. Very Valentines-ish and a nice diversion from all that chocolate. Try some out for yourself.
2 ½ cups blanched almond flour
½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
½ cup grapeseed oil
¼ cup agave nectar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup raspberry jam
- In a large bowl, combine almond flour and salt
- In a smaller bowl, combine grapeseed oil, agave and vanilla
- Stir wet ingredients into dry
- Chill dough in freezer for 30 minutes
- Between 2 pieces of parchment paper
, roll out dough 1/4 to 1/8 inch thick
- Use a cookie cutter to cut out 2 hearts of the same size
- Take a smaller heart cookie cutter to cut out the center of one of the hearts
- Press your thumb into the solid heart to make an indentation, then fill this spot with jam
- Place the hollow heart on top of the jam covered heart
- Bake hearts at 350° on a parchment
- Cool and Serve
The trick to making these is to divide the dough into 4 parts; take one part of chilled dough out of the freezer at a time to roll and cut out cookies. The rest of the dough will stay cold in the freezer. Keep in mind, the dough is much easier to handle when it is chilled.
These vegan, dairy free, gluten free cookies use the same dough as yesterday's recipe for Black and White Cookies. My favorite thing about this cookie dough is that it requires only 5 ingredients, keeping the recipe quite simple. You can make this easy, versatile dough into both the black and white cookies and linzer hearts.
Two types of cookies, more Valentine's fun.
Posted on February 10, 2008 in desserts by Elana
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Great recipes, I'm making linzer hearts today! My wife put in an order for a GF lemon cake, any ideas?
Thanks,
Bruce
Bruce,
Thanks for your comment! I hope you all enjoyed the linzer hearts.
I made a couple of test batches of lemon cake for you and your wife today. I will have my professional tasters (husband and sons) test it for me tomorrow. If they approve, I'll post it this week. If not, it will be back to the drawing board for me and I'll need to bake a few more test batches.
Elana
I made these as thumbprint cookies - roll the dough into balls, make a little hollow, and fill with raspberry jam. This simplification turns this into a fantastic everyday cookie! I will be serving these at my daughter's birthday party. Thanks for GF recipes that everybody loves!
Dear Lora -Thanks for sharing your idea and method. Love it! Happy Birthday to your daughter, how old is she? Elana
About how many cookies did this recipe make? I'm going to try adapting it for a different kind of cutout. Thanks!
Kari -please see yield information at the bottom of this recipe.
I don't want to be a comment hog, but I do so enjoy what I'm learning that I love to let you know. I made these this weekend and they were yummy. (I love the jam you recommended too!) I ended up taking them to a family party where some of the extended family is off sugar and they loved the cookies too.
Eden,
You're certainly not a comment hog; I love receiving your comments, my dear.
Glad you and the gang enjoyed these cookies.
Elana
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