Pecan Shortbread Linzer Cookies - Cuisinart SFP-13 Instruction And Recipe Booklet

PECAN SHORTBREAD LINZER COOKIES

These cookies can be cut into any shape, making them perfect
1/2
cup toasted pecan halves
¼
cup granulated sugar
3
cups unbleached
,
flour plus more for rolling
1
cup confectioners
plus extra for dusting
1/2
teaspoon kosher salt
20
tablespoons
unsalted butter
room temperature
1-
inch pieces
1
teaspoon pure vanilla extract
¾
cup raspberry jam
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for any holiday.
Makes 45 cookie sandwiches
1. Put the pecans and sugar into the large work bowl
fitted with the large chopping blade. Pulse until
the mixture resembles a coarse meal, remove and
reserve. Put the flour, confectioners' sugar and salt
into the work bowl. Pulse to mix dry ingredients
together, about 2 to 3 times. Add the pecan/sugar
mixture to dry ingredients.
2. Distribute the butter evenly over dry ingredients in
work bowl. Pulse to cut in the butter, 10 to 12 pulses.
Add the vanilla extract. Continue to pulse until the
mixture forms a dense dough. Remove dough and
divide into two equal disks, wrap in plastic wrap and
place in refrigerator for at least one hour.
3. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two baking sheets with
parchment paper. Set aside.
4. Remove 1 dough disk from refrigerator. On a floured
surface, roll the dough into an even ¹∕
Using a 2-inch fluted round cookie cutter, cut rounds
and place on parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake for
16 to 20 minutes, turning baking sheet halfway through
bake time, until the edges are golden. Remove from
oven and transfer cookies to a cooling rack.
5. Repeat rolling and baking with remaining dough, this
time using a ¾-inch round cutter to cut out centers of
the 2-inch fluted rounds.
6. Once cookies are cooled, spread 1/2 tablespoon of the
warm jam over the entire surface of the uncut rounds.
Top with the cutout rounds and press gently together
to adhere. Dust the tops of the cookies with
confectioners' sugar.
Nutritional information per cookie sandwich:
Calories 66 (11% from fat) • carb. 14g • pro. 1g • fat 1g
sat. fat 0g • chol. 0mg • sod. 25mg • calc. 2mg • fiber 0g
-inch thickness.
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