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    Home » Vegan Baking Recipes » Cookies

    Vegan Linzer cookies with almond flour (wfpb) - Shortbread Christmas Cookies

    Published: Dec 10, 2019 · Modified: Jul 22, 2020 by Jasmin Hackmann · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads

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    Vegan Linzer Cookies or also known as Spitzbuben and Hildabrötchen are super easy to bake vegan. These crumbly cookies are a great alternative to classic vegan christmas sugar cookie recipes.

    Vegan Linzer Cookies are German Christmas Cookies made with a shortcrust and filled with jam. (wfpb)

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    Basically, the Linzer cookies are made of shortbread and this is made from flour, butter (fat) and sugar.

    So you can enjoy the best vegan Christmas cookies in the Advent season to your cup of coffee or tea to homemade cakes and cookies (biscuits), you do not need complicated ingredients and most of you will already have them in stock.

    These vegan cookies with red jam filling are perfect as a gift idea for a Gift Swap or as a host gift.

    Linzer cookies are next to vanilla crescents, cinnamon waffles, gingerbread as one of the best Christmas cookies in Germany.

    The Christmas cookies are prepared from a simple dough without much effort.

    You can make these quickly without many steps. Use a jelly without fruit pieces instead of a jam.

    We made these cookies with our kids and the kids had a lot of fun to cut them out.

    It took a little longer to get it all done, but the kids had a lot of fun with it. And that's the most important thing, right?

    These cookies don’t just look pretty, but thanks to the combination with the jam, these cookies taste heavenly good. Especially with a cup of mulled wine.

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    Ingredients

    A quick overview of what ingredients we use in these amazing vegan linzer cookies.

    You can find the exact quantities in the recipe card below.

    Flour

    Nut butter (or coconut oil)

    Almond milk

    Coconut sugar or raw cane sugar, ground into powder

    Maple syrup

    Almond Flour or Finely ground almonds

    Cinnamon

    Clove, ground

    Currant or blackberry jelly or another dark variety

    Tapioca starch, ground for dusting (opt)

    How is the dough crumbly without butter or margarine?

    As you probably already noticed, I like to experiment with recipes and try to replace the oil with nut butter.

    Nut butters not only have more vitamins and nutrients, they are also full of healthy fats.

    And we do not want a cookie without fat, we want to replace the fat of processed foods like oils with wholesome foods like nut butter.

    Here it is important that we also replace some flour with ground almonds, otherwise the cookies will later become too dry and firm.

    However, if you do not refrain from oils, you can of course also just use coconut oil or margarine instead of nut butter.

    Vegan Linzer Cookies are German Christmas Cookies made with a shortcrust and filled with jam. (wfpb)

    Instruction

    First, mix all dry ingredients together and separately, mix all the liquid ingredients until they are creamy.

    With your fingers, slowly knead in the dry ingredients with the liquid mixture until a crumbly dough almost like for crumbs is achieved.

    Now wrap the dough in a cloth and put it in the fridge for 30 minutes.

    Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) and roll the dough thinly out, as for using normal cookie cutters.

    Use cookie cutters to cut the dough out. Use a circle cutter to cut out the main shape for the cookies. 

    Cut out half of the cookies with a decorative shape in the middle and the other half stay as they are.

    Now you bake the Linzer Cookies for about 10 minutes in the preheated oven.

    If you want you can sprinkle the cookies with the cut out middle with powdered sugar

    Now put some jelly on the whole cookies and place a cookie with a cut out shape on top.

    Let the biscuits cool down completely.

    Vegan Linzer Cookies are German Christmas Cookies made with a shortcrust and filled with jam. (wfpb)

    Which cookie cutters are the best?

    Here you can decide with your preferences. You can use either circles, hearts, stars. Or use a Linzer Cookie cutter set.

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    Storage

    Christmas' cookies are eaten so fast in our house.

    If you place the cookies in a cookie tin made of metal, then the Linzer Cookies last  for about 1 week at room temperature.

    Vegan Linzer Cookies are German Christmas Cookies made with a shortcrust and filled with jam. (wfpb)

    Must try vegan Christmas cookies and more

    • Gingerbread
    • Cinnamon waffles
    • Vanilla crescents
    • Homemade Mulled Wine (Glühwein)
    • Snickerdoodle Cookies

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    Vegan Linzer Cookies are German Christmas Cookies made with a shortcrust and filled with jam. (wfpb)

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    If you tried the vegan Recipe, be so nice ♥ and let me know by rating the recipe and writing what you think about it in the comments.  I would love to see your photo on Instagram or Facebook. To do this tag me with @veeatcookbake and my hashtag is #veeatcookbake. So that I can see your creation. Did you know you can add photos on Pinterest under the recipe Pin? I can’t wait to see a photo of your creation there. You find me with @veeatcookbake.

    Enjoy your Meal, Jasmin

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    Vegan Linzer Cookies are German Christmas Cookies made with a shortcrust and filled with jam. (wfpb)

    Vegan Linzer cookies with almonds (wfpb) - shortcrust Christmas Cookies

    Yield: 20
    Prep Time: 20 minutes
    Cook Time: 10 minutes
    Total Time: 30 minutes

    Linzer Cookies or also known as Spitzbuben and Hildabrötchen are super easy to bake vegan. Basically, the Linzer cookies are made of shortcrust pastry and this is made from flour, butter (fat) and sugar. So you can enjoy Christmas cookies in the Advent season to your cup of coffee or tea to homemade cakes and cookies (biscuits), you do not need complicated ingredients and most of you will already have them in stock. These vegan cookies with red jam filling are perfect as a gift idea for a Gift Swap or as a host gift.

    vegan | vegetarian | oil-free | butter-free | refined sugar free | wholesome | healthy | whole food plant-based (wfpb) | milk-free

    Ingredients

    • 1 cup (150 g) flour
    • ½ cup (125 g) nut butter like almond (or coconut oil) + ½ cup (120 ml) almond milk
    • ⅓ cup (60 g) coconut sugar or
    • raw cane sugar, ground
    • ⅓ cup (65 g) maple syrup
    • 3 cups + 2 tablespoon (300 g) almond flour
    • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
    • 1 pinch of clove ground

    Extra

    • Currant or blackberry jelly or your personal favorite
    • 3 tablespoon coconut sugar

    Instructions

    First, mix all dry ingredients together and separately, mix all the liquid ingredients until they are creamy.

    With your fingers, slowly knead in the dry ingredients with the liquid mixture until a crumbly dough almost like for crumbs is achieved.

    Now wrap the dough in a cloth and put it in the fridge for 30 minutes.

    Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) and roll the dough thinly out, as for using normal cookie cutters.

    Use cookie cutters (Linzer cookie cutters) to cut the dough out. Use the circle cutter to cut out the main shape for the cookies. 

    Cut out half of the circle cookies with a decorative shape in the middle and the other half stay as they are. Just circle.

    Now you bake the Linzer Cookies for about 10 minutes in the preheated oven.

    If you want you can sprinkle the cookies with the cut out middle with powdered sugar

    Now put some jelly on the whole cookies and place a cookie with a cut out shape on top.

    Let the biscuits cool down completely.

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    Nutrition Information
    Yield 20 Serving Size 1
    Amount Per Serving Calories 31Total Fat 0gSaturated Fat 0gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 0gCholesterol 1mgSodium 7mgCarbohydrates 7gNet Carbohydrates 0gFiber 1gSugar 6gSugar Alcohols 0gProtein 1g

    The nutrition is calculated automatically and should be used as an estimate.

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    © Jasmin
    Cuisine: German / Category: Cookies

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