- Hey, guys.
Today I'm gonna share with you
a really great idea for a holiday cookie.
It's my chocolate hazelnut linzer cookies.
These are so delicious and so easy to make.
They're also so festive too.
This video is part of Kin Community's
annual cooking collaboration where everyday,
a different YouTube channel will be posting
a different holiday cookie recipe
and today, it's my turn.
So after this video is done, be sure to click
the link in the description and that will take you
to the playlist where all the recipes will be featured.
Okay, so let me show you how to make
these festive holiday cookies.
So in a bowl of an electric mixer,
you're going to add one cup of unsalted butter,
and a cup and a quarter of powdered sugar
or you may know it as confectioner sugar
or icing sugar, all the same thing.
So you just wanna beat that together
until everything is combined.
Really helps if your butter is at room temperature.
Then you're also gonna add one egg and one egg yolk
and you can beat that together until everything is combined.
Then you're gonna add two teaspoons of vanilla extract
and you can beat that together.
Then, in a small bowl, you wanna combine
your dry ingredients.
So you're gonna add a cup and a half of all-purpose flour,
and then two cups of hazelnut flour.
So this is basically just ground hazelnuts.
Sometimes you will also see it labeled as hazelnut meal,
either one is interchangeable.
If you can't find it at your health food store,
I'll put a link in the description to my Amazon shop
and you can get it there.
And then to that, you're also gonna add
half a teaspoon of salt and a quarter teaspoon
of baking powder.
Then you can whisk that all together until combined
and then you're slowly gonna add the dry ingredients
to your butter mixture until everything
is combined and incorporated, and at this stage,
you're gonna have a really sticky cookie dough
on your hands, in fact, you're gonna wonder
if you can even roll this out.
Trust me, you can, but it does take some refrigeration.
So you wanna layout two sheets of parchment paper
and then take half the dough and put it
on a mound on one of them, and then take the other half
and put it on the other, and the reason
we're gonna do this is one half of the dough
is for the bottom of the cookies
and then the other half is for the tops.
And then you're just gonna wrap your dough
in the paper and then press it down
to create a flattened disk.
It's a lot easier to do it that way than to try
to do it with bare hands 'cause it is so sticky.
And then you will put it on your refrigerator
either overnight is best or really a minimum of four hours.
And then to make these cookies, we're gonna be working
with a linzer cookie cutter set.
You can find a lot of different ones online
or in different cooking stores.
I happen to like this set because it comes
with both the star and the hearts
and a few other shapes as well
so it's great for holiday baking
and then you can keep it also for Valentine's Day.
Then you're gonna roll out your dough
and I find it's easier to try to roll it out
as large as you can to try to get
as many cutouts as you can.
That way, you're not rolling out the dough several times
which then makes it get a little bit too warm
and then it becomes a little bit more difficult
to work with.
And then using your cookie cutter
that doesn't have the insert in
because we wanna just make the bottoms first,
you're gonna cut out a bunch of little circles
and then you wanna transfer it to a baking sheet
lined with parchment paper.
And at this stage, you can get maybe about 12 circles,
maybe make a dozen to begin with.
And then you wanna pop these in a 350 degree oven
for about 10 minutes.
And while that's all happening, you can work on the tops.
Just roll out your second disk of dough
and then working with the same cookie cutter,
you're now gonna add the little star insert.
You're just gonna take the cookie cutter
and then grab the little star insert
and then it twists and kinda locks into place
and then when you press it into the dough
and release it with a little tension spring,
you'll see you have a beautiful cutout with a star.
How easy is that?
And then you go ahead and cut 12 circles.
So you wanna make sure you have enough tops
to go on the bottoms.
And then you can bake those for about nine to 10 minutes.
The cutouts take just a little less time.
Now at this stage, once the cookies are completely cool,
you can dust the tops with some powdered sugar.
And then on the bottoms, you wanna do a little dollop
of your favorite chocolate hazelnut spread.
You can use Nutella or any brand you like.
And then you're gonna take the top
and sandwich that on the bottom.
And see, now you have this beautiful
chocolate hazelnut linzer cookie.
And then to make them extra fancy,
I do like to put them on a special cake stand.
If you have something that's two-tiered it's even better.
And this time of year, you can go
to all of these discount stores
and they have so many fancy cake stands
that don't cost a lot of money.
I found this little brass one for just 10 dollars
and then I gussied it up with some faux greenery
and a big red ribbon, seeing it just makes it
look extra special.
There's nothing more beautiful than a holiday cookie
dusted with powdered sugar and chocolate underneath
and that combination of hazelnut
just makes it so Christmassy.
I hope you guys give this one a try
and let me know what you think,
and I also hope that you check out the other videos
in this playlist.
There's some other fantastic cookie recipes
that I know you will all enjoy.
Alright you guys, I'll see you back here next week
for another quick and easy holiday recipe.
Until then, bye.
(Christmas music)