EPISODE 7: CHRISTMAS MAGIC
In the new Advent episode with Ana Ugarković, we step into the most fragrant time of the year — as Ana prepares irresistible walnut bars.
LINZER COOKIES
(makes about 40 cookies)
Ingredients:
- 200 g of flour
- 100 g of pistachios
- grated lemon zest
- 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder
- 70 g of powdered sugar
- 280 g of butter
- 60 g of egg yolks (from two hard-boiled eggs; cooled and pressed through a sieve)
- 12 g of ground cinnamon
- 50 g of finely ground walnuts
- marmalade or jam of your choice
Preparation:
Beat the butter with a mixer until it becomes fluffy, then add the sugar, walnuts, cooked egg yolks, salt, cinnamon and the flour sifted together with the baking powder. Mix just until you get a homogeneous dough. Divide it into two parts, flatten each into a disk, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 4–5 hours.
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Take the dough out of the fridge and roll it out between two sheets of parchment paper to a thickness of about 3 mm.
This dough is very soft, so you need to work quickly.
Using a round or square cookie cutter, cut out the cookies. With a smaller cutter, make holes in the center of half of the cookies. Arrange them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for 7–10 minutes, just until they take on a light color.
Transfer the cookies to a rack to cool.
Place a teaspoon of lightly warmed marmalade or jam on the whole cookies, then cover each with the cookie that has a hole in the center.
