Vegan Linzer cookies with almonds (wfpb) - shortcrust Christmas Cookies
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
Servings 20
Calories 31kcal
Equipment
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 tbsp 300 g almond flour
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 pinch of clove ground
Extra
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.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 31kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 1g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 7mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 6g