Spiced Apple Butter Linzer Cookies
Sweet, easy to make, and melt-in-your-mouth delicious! These Spiced Apple Butter Linzer Cookies are the only cookie recipe you'll need this holiday season.
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup salted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 2 ½ cups apple butter
- Powdered sugar, for finishing
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, almond flour, cinnamon, and baking powder. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter and sugar until creamy, about 3-5 minutes.
- Beat in egg and vanilla.
- Stir in dry ingredients. Dough will be a little sticky.
- Divide in 2.
- Flatten each half of dough into a disc.
- Wrap tightly with plastic wrap.
- Refrigerate at least 1 hour.
- Working with one disc at a time, on a floured surface, roll dough out to 1/4".
- Cut out with 2" cookie cutter.
- Using a 1/2" cutter, cut shape in center of half of cookies.
- Place on prepared baking sheet.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes, until just starting to show color.
- Remove from oven and let cool for 5 minutes on sheet pan.
- Remove to cooling rack to finish cooling.
- When cool, flip over the whole cookies and spoon 1 teaspoon of apple butter on each.
- Sift a little powdered sugar on tops of the cookies with cut outs and place on top of apple butter.
Notes
Substitutions:
- Don't have almond flour? No worries! Using a food processor, you can grind some almonds and have the same thing! Just remember it needs to be a very fine grind. No chunks!
- You can use store-bought apple butter.
- Be careful not to over-mix the cookie dough!
- The dough should be refrigerated for at least an hour, but you can refrigerate it up to 24 hours.
- Don't press too hard when assembling the cookies! You don't want the apple butter to smush out.
- These cookies are really meant to be made and eaten within 24 hours of assembly. They won't keep for very long so, plan accordingly!
- Feel free to bake the small cut outs from the top cookies.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookieCalories: 128kcalCarbohydrates: 18gProtein: 1gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 16mgSodium: 49mgPotassium: 25mgFiber: 1gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 148IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 15mgIron: 1mg
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.