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September 13, 2019Fall is starting and the holiday season is creeping up–meaning I *have* to make cookies…I swear, the holidays bring out all our inner cookie monsters 🙂 My first thought for holiday cookies (aside from the holy grail: chocolate chip cookies) are these snowy Austrian Linzer cookies, with an addictive, melt-in-your-mouth texture and warmly spiced flavor. Traditional linzer cookies aren’t your average jam cookie–the cookie is flavored with fragrant winter spices, lemon zest, and nuts and filled with tart jam. As it sits, the jam permeates the cookies, resulting in an incredibly tender bite. The Linzer cookie is named after the…
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