This week's Tuesdays With Dorie was Linzer Sables. I was sort of ambivalent about this recipe because I can take or leave a linzer cookie. They've just always been a little subtle for my taste. This is actually a great recipe though. The dough is easy to work with and the cookies are scrummy.
I didn't realize until this recipe that I left all of my cookie cutters in Houston as well as all of my other special baking tools and goodies. I think that my biggest pet peeve was that I didn't have any little Christmas cookie cutters to make cute little windows in my cookies. BOO! As for the 2" rounds, I was all ready to call it a day and make rectangles with a pizza wheel but I figured out that I had a glass that would work, so there you go! I cut out one sheet of the dough and got 12 circles, or 6 sandwiches. I'm saving the rest of the dough to make cookies to give to my neighbors next week.
I tasted the cookies with and without the jam and I thought that they were surprisingly good. I made the sandwiches with seedless raspberry and apricot jam and I liked each of them too. I doubt that I'll ever crave them but I can see myself making them again because they're so easy and they look so pretty (and even prettier once I get my hands on some cookie cutters!). One caveat, the jam-filled sandwiches were darned messy to eat! I had jam and powdered sugar all over myself! Maybe this is because I was super greedy and ate my cookie right after I put it together. Maybe they'll set up and be easier to eat without getting doused in jam and sugar!
Thanks to noskos at Living the Good Life for choosing this week's recipe. If you want to see the recipe
12 comments:
Kudos on working through the dearth of cookie cutters - it looks like the glass worked perfectly. Wonderful!
They look great!
Glad you liked them. I agree with you on that they were also good just plain on their own :)
You used a glass -- you're brilliant! See, I can just never seem to think on my feet like that. I'd either run to the store or start to cry upon learning that I didn't have my cutters. Your cookies look gorgeous! Glad you enjoyed them!
Wow, way to improvise! I hate it when I leave my baking things somewhere. Grrr.
glad you found a glass that would work for you :) i do believe that you can freeze them w/the jam in the middle, just not w/the confectioner's sugar. i also found that they were less messy if you just dollop the jam on, then sandwich the cookies vs spreading the jam evenly on the cookie before sandwiching them. if you look around the kitchen, you might be able to find something else to do the cut out in the middle if you don't have your pastry tips handy... a large straw maybe? the cap to a liquor bottle (or other bottle in your pantry)? you can get creative ;)
Cookie cutter or not, they look pretty good! Even a bit quirky with jam drips that seem like their sticking their tongues out! Just goes to say, that necessity is the mother of invention... and that sometimes, less is more! Very creative with a lot of spunk!
Yeah, before my friend bailed me out and let me use her cutters, I was going to use a can with the top taken off, like my grandma used to do with biscuits. I might see how that works next time! Good job. My favorite part was eating the dough.
Great job!
I was surprised to enjoy them so much myself! They are a pretty cookie!
Your cookies turned out great, even though you left your cookie cutters back home. I agree with your description - easy to make, pretty, and tasty enough to make for the holidays.
I agree - very messy to eat these! But so pretty on the plate.
Great job! They look very good. Your neighbors will be very lucky!
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