It’s time for my annual Christmas holiday cookie bake-a-thon! 297 treats were made and I am sharing two recipes: Devil’s Food and Austrian Linzer Cookies.
My friend Catherine and I got together for the 3rd year in a row and baked up a storm of cookies once again. We made 6 types of cookies, some mixed nuts and pretty homemade chocolates. Our final count was 297. I have links to all the recipes and I will be sharing two of them with you today: the Austrian Linzer Cookies and the Devil’s Food cookies.
Left to right, top to bottom:
Lemon Rosemary and Black Pepper Nut Mix
Devil’s Food Cookies – recipe below
Bacon Fat Gingersnaps
Linzer Cookies -(and made tuiles with the dough too) recipe below
Chocolate Chip and Pecan Cookies
Peanut Butter Surprises
Orange Sable Cookies
Homemade chocolate made from chocolate melts.
I am so impressed with my first attempt ever at fancy chocolates!
These cookies are so good…even the cat eyes them closely!
Austrian Linzer cookies
This year I am wrapping up my Austrian Christmas cookies trilogy. I had three recipes to make so I made one Austrian Christmas cookie per year. The last couples of years I made Husarenkrapferl cookies and Vanillekipferl cookies. My last ones are Austrian Linzer cookies.
I am dedicating these cookies to my dad who passed away this September. He was Austrian and I always made these Austrian recipes with him in mind. Who knew my trilogy would end with his grand departure. I am sure he is eye these closely where he is!!! And they would go great with this green almond liqueur recipe.
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Helle Linzer Plaetzchen, or Austrian Linzer cookies, originated in the Austrian city of Linz. I am sure you have heard of the Linzer Torte, a pastry that has a dough lattice over a jam filling. This is the cookie version: two butter-laden shortbread cookies sandwiched together with apricot jam that peeks out through the cutout. Austrian Linzer cookies are a staple around Christmas time.
Austrian Linzer cookies
Ingredients
- 4 ounces/113 grams butter room-temperature
- 3/4 cup/75 grams confectioners' sugar + for dusting
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup/125 grams flour
- 1/2 cup apricot jam
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, cream together butter, confectioners' sugar and vanilla extract.
- Stir flour into the creamed btter and knead just until mixture forms a ball. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 30 minutes (or up to several days).
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a cookie sheets with parchment paper. Dust work surface with confectioners' sugar and roll out cookie dough to about 1/8 inch/3 mm thick. Using a cookie cutter, cut an even number of bottoms (without the cutout) and an even number of tops (with a hole in the middle). Transfer with a spatula to the prepared cookie sheets. ?
- Freeze each tray 10 minutes before baking.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.?
- Spread the bottom half of the cooled cookies with 1-2 teaspoons apricot jam Place a cookie top on the jam-coated bottom cookie and press lightly. Sift confectioners' sugar over the cooled cookie tops.
Check out this short video of the 3rd annual Christmas holiday cookie bake-a-thon!
Devil’s Food Cookies
I am back with a Food N Flix post after a long hiatus. Food ‘n Flix is hosted this month by Heather at All Roads Lead to the Kitchen! In this monthly group, a host picks a movie of their choice that pertains to food. Everyone watches the movie and then makes a recipe which the film inspired. It can be any recipe you want. Join us!
And this month we watched a classic teenage angst film, Clueless. I was four years out of high school when this came out but I still loved it. Classic cool girls, new looser girl taken under the wing, stupid boys, some good boys. It stars It stars Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Paul Rudd and Brittany Murphy.
It is a fun watch this again (like my 4th time now). You can see how the movie has aged when the girls in the movie faun over Mel Gibson, Luke Perry, Christian Slayer!
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Food is a prop in this movie, but nothing more. There are a lot of food props though: cherry, milk shake, fresh orange juice, sliced red bell pepper, Starbucks coffee, naya water, coke, Minute Maid OJ, orange, apple, yogurt, carefree gum, high school cafeteria food, cholesterol low dinner…lots of mystery home meals, beer, spiked punch, weed, pretzels, chips, chocolate boxes, fritos, lays chips, doritos, fries, subs, salad, prepared cookie dough, bread, wine, capuccino, Snackwells devils food cookie, sprite, lolipop, ceral box, canned goods, and red caviar.
Clueless Company
My inspiration was a cookie I know about but never tried. I know America had a slight obsession with Snackwell’s Devil’s Food cookies for a while. Imagine pillowy chocolate cookie cakes, topped with a layer of marshmallow frosting, finished off with a coat of chocolate. This is a copycat recipe basically but I did not totally dip my cookies in chocolate. I opted for a heavy decorative drizzle instead.
And this is like the original cookies. I read that Snackwell’s changed up the recipe in recent years to make it “healthy.” I heard they are a weak match compared to the original cookie. Clearly, Nabisco was Clueless when they made this decision!
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Looking for another amazing cookie recipe to try. Check out these Argentinian Alfajores Cookies or these delicious Italian Amaretti cookies.
Look at all those cookies! But your devil food cookies looks sinfully good
Ha great choice of word, sinfull 😀
All of the cookies look amazing. I have a special fondness for Linzer cookies and although I’m not sure I’ve ever had a Snackwell devil’s Food cookie, I would happily consume your version–you sold me with pillowy marshmallow. 😉
The first holidays after losing a parent, or anyone are hard. I think your dad was looking down and smiling at you and your baking.
Thank you Deb and I wish there were cookies left to send you lol. I have to say the Devil’s food was my fave! Thank you for your kind words too, means a lot. It was OK…until Jan 01st, it hit me more that day. But to be expected.
Those Snackwells, never did reach my area of Canada, but these look great. Glad to see you’re back.
Mine neither, I have a vague memory from a holidays down South 😉 Nice to be back!
That’s quite the baking marathon Evelyne and yes, I’m sure your father was smiling down upon you as you baked those cookies in his honor.
I am still recovering from the baking marathon lol. I am sure he would have eaten many too if he could have 🙂
HOLY MOLY, I want all of those in my mouth NOW!!!! Happy holidays my sweet friend, and happy new year! <3
LOL alas there are none left! Happy holidays Gingi and Happy New Year!
Both of your cookies look amazing. I love Linzer cookies especially. So simple to make as well and utterly delicious I bet.
Thanks Melissa and yes the Linzer is so buttery and delicate.
Well you two cranked out some amazing cookies! Those linzers really caught my eye and your chocolates are gorgeous!! Wishing you a Merry Christmas!!!!
he Linzers are so good! Can you believe i have a friend coming over to bake cookies today! Much smaller scale though lol.Merry Christmas to you and your family!
OMG those chocolates are unreal!!!! Bravo to you you magician!!!!!!! 😉
Friggin’ adore you! Have an awesome holiday! Can’t wait to catch up in 2018!!
I true magician would pull out a version of that one you can eat out of a hat lol. Have a FAB holiday and see you next year!
Lovely bake Eve, I specially love linzer cookies, they are one of my fav. Happy holidays and Merry Christmas.
Thank you Amira and Happy Holidays you too!
I’d forgotten about them, but now that you mention it, I did love those Snackwells Devil’s Food Cookies…nostalgia! These sound delicious. So happy that you’re back this month, Evelyne!
Thank you Heather, I missed the group a lot!
Wow that’s some cookie baking! Love you Austrian linzer cookies – they look amazing!
Thank you Marcellina 🙂
Oooh my those Devil’s Food Cookies look so good. Love that you create so many different cookies together, what a fun and delicious tradition!
Thanks Kavita, we have fun and we get a delicious ending 🙂
What a delicious collection of cookies! Thank God I am not there or I would devour them all! Happy holidays to you and yours! Enjoy the festivities!
Haha Katerina, it is hard to not eat too many lol. Happy Holidays!
Oh My… These devil’s food cookies look marvellous! I have never heard about them before, which obviously is a BIG mistake! You are seriously really skilled at making the most beautiful Christmas delights… Being pregnant I now crave from the all! Guess I have to practice in my own kitchen 😉
Merry Christmas!
X Louise
Oh the Devil’s food cookies are so good! Why thank you for the compliment. I wish I could send some for you and the baby to come through the screen 🙂
I remember you doing the cookies for a few years now. What an amazing effort it takes but I’m sure that everyone appreciates it and loves it.
Yes they do…and we do too. Eating too many cookies lol.
All of these cookies look great! Looks like you’ve started a great tradition!
We definitely have fun 🙂
What a great pile of cookies! (I say “pile” in the best possible sense of the word!)
I love this tradition you have with your friend and it looks quite fruitful and festive!
Haha pile is a great word for it. I look forward to this event every December 🙂
I’m not a cook or baker, really, but I love the photo with the kitty!
Kitty is very cute. But surely you just enjoy eating cookies? 🙂
This is a bonanza of recipes for the holidays that I am sure my grandkids will love. Thank you so much!
My pleasure, hopefully you can try a few with them 🙂
Devil’s food cookies have such an interesting name, but I bet they taste even better!
Totally! I just looked it up: antithetical counterpart to the angel food cake
So many goodies, where to start? These all look wonderful. Hard to beat devil’s food, though! Love the picture of the cat — so nice. Thanks for all the ideas. And Happy Holidays!
I would say start left to right, top to bottom LOL. That cat is usually hiding but I even got to pet it. Happy Holidays to you and the Mrs too!
My mouth is watering looking at this! I’m going to have to give a few of these recipes a try, I’m terrible at sticking to the same boring recipes!
Ha I feel you, I rarely make the same recipe twice, even if I love it. So many new recipes to try all the time.
I adore Linzer torte and cookies! How are you going to finish all the cookies? Need help ? 🙂
Haha sure, come on over! Work has been helping a lot in eating them 😉
Hi Evelyne! The cookies all look delicious!!! I love Linzer cookies but have never made them. So they’re a must try! Our cats have eyeballed the cookies like that also! Cute cat!
Thank you Pam, Make sure to freeze the dough a bit before baking or they will melt away shape wise. LOL the cats must be related!