How To Make The Most Delicious Linzer Cookies

• Begin by preheating your oven to 350. In a large mixing bowl, crack one egg. Add your sugar, butter, vanilla, baking powder, and salt. Whisk well. Add your flour and mix until a thick cookie dough forms. Shape the dough into a ball and wrap in plastic. Place in the fridge to rest for 30 minutes.
• After the linzer cookie dough has rested, flour a clean surface to begin rolling out your dough. Use a floured rolling pin to roll the dough into a ¼ inch thick slab. If the dough is still sticking to the counter surface or to the rolling pin, sprinkle more flour. Use your cookie cutters to cut out cookie shapes and carefully transfer them onto a baking sheet that is lined with parchment paper.
• Use a ½ teaspoon measuring spoon to scoop out your jam and place it in the center of each cookie on your cookie sheet.
• Take the scraps of the dough and roll them back into a ball. Roll the dough back out on the floured surface into another ¼ inch thick slap. Use your cookie cutters to cut out the exact same shapes that you cut before. Then use a smaller cookie cutter to cut a small window into the cookies. These will become the top of your linzer cookies where the jam peaks through. Place each of these on top of the cookies on the baking sheet.
• Bake the lizner cookies in the oven for 10-12 minutes. At ten minutes, you will have a softer baked cookie and at twelve minutes you will have a more golden chewy cookie.
• Allow the cookies to cool on a wire cooking rack and then dust them with powdered sugar before sharing with the ones you love!