These beautiful, tender linzer cookies with raspberry jam filling are perfectly sweet (i.e.not TOO sweet) and particularly enjoyable during the holiday season.  You’ll have friends and family waiting in the wings while you assemble them! No wonder they’re our new Christmas tradition!  The Perfect Holiday Cookie For the past few years, we’ve all looked forward to these festive little cookies around the holidays.They’ve had my dad Bill declaring almond flour to be the most underrated baking ingredient.

(We also use almond flour in our osmanthus cake.) The almond flour makes for the most tender crumb, and they bake for juuust long enough to set them.Along with the moisture from the jam, the result is a cookie that’s slightly soft instead of crunchy.Delicious with a cup of tea, coffee, or milk.  The glossy window of red jam is also about as festive as can be during the holiday season! I just love them, and they’re now the only cookie I will go to the trouble of making every year.

A New Christmas Cookie Tradition  There are a lot of Linzer Cookie recipes on the internet, and many seem quite devil-may-care for this Type A gal, considering what a Linzer cookie entails.  The first time I made them, I didn’t really have my head screwed on straight.It was 2020.I had spent the vast majority of December—oh who am I kidding, September, October, November, AND December—padding around in a long robe or nightgown of some sort.

I thought…

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