Healthy Chocolate Linzer Cookies
- 1 cup Organic Butter
- 23 cups Coconut Sugar
- 1 whole Large Egg
- 1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
- 2 cups Spelt Flour
- 23 cups Ground Almonds
- 1/4 teaspoons Cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoons Sea Salt
- 23 cups Chopped Dark Chocolate, Melted
- Cream together butter and coconut sugar in a large bowl.
- Mix in the egg and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the remaining ingredients except the chocolate.
- Add the dry ingredients into the wet and mix until just incorporated.
- Divide the dough into two equals portions, wrap each in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. Remove a dough portion from fridge and unwrap it.
- On a lightly floured surface roll out the dough ball to be about 1/8 inch thick.
- Use a cookie cutter with a cut-out center to cut the cookies (these will be the tops of your cookie sandwiches).
- Quickly re-roll the dough scraps to cut out the bottom half of your cookies (use the same size cookie cutter but for this one dont use one with a cut-out center).
- Make sure to cut out even numbers of tops and bottoms.
- When done with the first section of dough, repeat with the second section.
- Place cookies on parchment lined baking trays and bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Remove pans from oven and set on a rack.
- Allow cookies to cool for 5 minutes before removing them from the trays.
- While cookies cool, melt chocolate in the top of a double boiler or in the microwave for 30 second heat increments at a time.
- Spoon about 1-2 teaspoons of melted chocolate over each cooked bottom cookie and cover with top cutout cookie.
- Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days or in the freezer for up to a month.
- Makes about 18-22 cookie sandwiches, depending on cookie cutter size.
- Note: If you do not have cookie cutters with any kind of cutout center, you could use an extra small cookie cutter to cut out the centers of a larger cookie cutter.
- These cookies would also be delicious just dipped in chocolate, instead of in sandwich form!
- Slightly adapted from Wilton Linzer recipe.
butter, coconut sugar, egg, vanilla, flour, ground almonds, cinnamon, salt, chocolate
Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/special-dietary-needs/sugar-free/healthy-chocolate-linzer-cookies/ (may not work)