Healthy Linzer Cookies
These healthy Linzer cookies are made with way less amount of butter and use honey as the cookies' sweetener. They're soft and tender with a hint of lemon to them. Not overly sweet and just perfect for when you want to show off your baking skills (nobody will know they're so easy to make!)
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 35 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
- 2+1/3 cup light spelt flour
- 1 cup blanched almond flour
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1/2 cup butter (, room temperature)
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 large egg (, room temperature)
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- zest of 1 lemon
- some confectioner sugar (, for dusting)
- 3/4 cup sugar-free raspberry jam (, more or less)
Instructions
- 1
Mix all of the dry ingredients in a bowl with a spoon, set aside.
- 2
Add butter and honey to the standing mixer bowl and using the flat beater attachment, mix until you get a creamy mixture. Add in egg, vanilla extract, and lemon zest, and give everything a quick mix.
- 3
Now add in the dry ingredients mixture and mix just until everything comes together, don't over-mix the dough. The dough will be soft and slightly sticky. Wrap it in a cling film, and flatten it into a disk. Chill in the fridge for 1 hour.
- 4
Dust your working surface and rolling pin with some flour. Roll out the dough to around 1/4 inch thickness. Cut out the cookies using the Linzer cookie cutters. Alternate the base and the top so that you always have a full pair.
- 5
Using an offset spatula, place the cookies on parchment paper on a baking tray. They can be placed near each other as the cookies won't spread.
- 6
Bake in a preheated oven at 350ºF (175ºC), without the fan, on the lower 2/3 rack for 10-12 minutes. Don't overbake them as they'll end up being hard. The bottom of the cookies should just barely be brown.
- 7
Place all of the top cookies only on a rack/tray. Dust them with confectioner sugar.
- 8
Put a dollop of jam on the base cookies and place the dusted top cookies on top, press lightly. Enjoy!