This week, for Tuesdays with Dorie, Dennis of Living the Life chose Linzer Sables on pages 134-135 of Baking: From My Home to Yours. I decided to make heart-shaped cookies along with some sandwich cookies.
I’m glad that I followed the advice of other bakers on the TWD blog, and rolled the dough for the sandwich cookies a lot thinner than the 1/4-inch that Dorie recommends in the recipe, or they would have been far too thick. I chose ground almonds for the dough, and cut back the cinnamon to 1 teaspoon because I was used Vietnamese Cassia Cinnamon, which is a lot stronger than the stuff you usually find in the grocery store. I think one of the key tricks here is not to let the cookies get too dark, or you spoil the pretty effect of the sandwich cookies. If you rolled out the dough rather unevenly, that may require that you pull some cookies off a baking sheet before the others are quite done.
The result was a crisp, flavorful but not-too-spicy cookie, that Master Chow, my honorable husband, thought was quite tasty. I used some Polaner brand Black Cherry jam for the sandwich cookies, and he thought that it was apple butter, so next time I’ll probably try apricot jam. I thought they were okay on their own, but really good dunked into a cup of hot tea with milk. Yum. Be sure to check out the TWD blogroll to see the wonderful creations of about 300 other bakers!
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Black cherry = apple butter?? Hmm… Apricot would probably be quite tasty, but what would he think *that* was? Your cookies are quite pretty, fillings aside 🙂
Black cherry jam sounds really really good. Your cookies are just beautiful. I love the hearts…those will be pretty on Valentine’s Day also, wouldn’t they? Great post…always fun to come and visit and read what you’ve been up to over here.
I should have tried these with a warm drink, but they are all gone now. I’m glad you like these. Your linzers look great!
Oh…they look delicious.
I wish I had rolled mine thinner.
I enjoyed mine with tea as well, though I didn’t do any dunking. =) The hearts look really nice.
Yummy! Your hearts looks fantastic. Great job with these cookies. Mine stuck and got yuck 🙂
These look great. Wish I had had a chance, but like your DB – too little time and too much to do. Apple butter would be good, maybe with extra cinnamon in the cookies. Yummy!!
Isn’t the powdered sugar so festive? I think it’s definitely worth the extra step. Yours look fabulous!
Oh, and Penzey’s has the best spices. I went over Thanksgiving and restocked!
I just love the stacked photo! And I agree about not getting too dark. Fortunately the powdered sugar covered up any brown edges!
I just love Linzer cookies!
(Sorry you didnt like the soup)
Nicely done. I almost used some pumpkin butter, but decided to use up the boysenberry jam. I’ll have to bake some to eat unsandwiched.
Oooh, I like the way they look when they’re thinner too. Nice work!
Your cookies are beautiful! I think you are so right that the key is not to let them get too dark. I bet these were heavenly dunked into hot tea!
I love the hearts- those look absolutely wonderful!
Your cookies look fabulous!!
What pretty little cookies. You did an awesome job!
Your heart shape linzer sables look great! I didn’t roll my cookies evenly and like what you’ve mentioned, some of the thinner ones turned brown much faster than the rest.
Your hearts look great! Black cherry filling sounds delicious!
Ooh, black cherry jam sounds fantastic!
I’m drooling over that closeup picture. Yours look delicious. Nice job! I”m going to have mine with tea today. 🙂
I rolled mine between two wooden pieces, they are 1/4 inch thick. Very helpful.
Your cookies look very appetizing.
Wish I’d rolled mine thinner. They took A LOT of dunking.
Your heart sables are adorable. I am a sucker for all things hearts. You peaked my interest with the Viet cinnamon. I might have to order some myself! It appeals to the Vietnamese in me. 😉
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pretty!! and i bet they were perfect with tea!
Love that you did hearts! So cute! I may try dipping mine in the tea 🙂 YUM!
Your cookies look fabulous! I wish I had rolled mine thinner. The sandwiches were much too thick!
I’m glad these worked out for you, they are very pretty!
Beautiful cookies! Dunking theses beauties in tea w. milk? — yum!
Those look really tasty. I can’t wait to make them!
I think these cookies were invented to join a cup of tea 🙂 Yours look great!