Linzer Cookies

I love these cookies!  In truth, they're kind of a pain to make, but you can easily divide the work up over a few days.  They're delicious and so beautiful they're always a hit!

Linzer Cookies

Ingredients

• 12 Tbsp. butter, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 tsp. vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups almond flour
• 2 1/4 cups cake flour
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/8 tsp. salt
• 1/2 cup red jam
• powdered sugar
• matching large and small cookie cutters

Makes approximately 15 cookies
Cook time: 10-12 minutes

Cream butter and sugar together, add egg and beat until fully incorporated; add in vanilla and almond flour.  Meanwhile, whisk together cake flour, baking powder, and salt.  Add dry mixture to wet mixture and beat until just combined.
Bring dough together into two discs and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Roll out refrigerated dough onto floured surface, roughly 1/8" thick.  Cut out cookies into desired shapes (I like Christmas trees or stockings).  Using the mini-cookie cutter cut out the centers of half the cookies.  Bake at 350 until edges are just beginning to brown.  
Let cookies cool and smear jam onto the bottom halves (the halves that have only been cut once).  Sprinkle powdered sugar onto all the halves with the missing centers.  Top the powdered sugared cookies onto the jam cookies to create the classic Linzer cookie look.
Freezes well.