Description
A take on the linzer cookie with a cranberry compote filling and pumpkin pie spice cookie.
Ingredients
Scale
- 170 g butter
- 127 g sugar
- 10 g molasses
- 32 g eggs (whisked)
- 213 g pastry flour
- 7 g pumpkin spice
- 30 g graham crackers, finely ground
- 85 g almond flour
- 1 cup powdered sugar, for dusting
- Cranberry compote
For the cranberry compote:
- Zest from 2 oranges
- 12 oz orange juice
- 6 oz honey
- 2 12-oz bags cranberries
- 2 sweet apples, such as Fuji, Honeycrisp or Red Delicious
- 12 oz brown sugar
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar until smooth and light.
- Add molasses and eggs and mix until incorporated.
- Add flour, pumpkin spice, graham crackers, baking powder, and almond flour. Mix until combined.
- Wrap dough and place in fridge overnight.
- Roll out dough to thickness of about 2 stacked quarters.
- Using large cookie cutter cut out 2 cookies. With half the cookies, cut a small circle out of the middle to use as the “top” cookie.
- Collect the cutout dough centers and scrap dough and use the above process until the dough is gone.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 20 minutes. Halfway through baking rotate the trays. Cool on the counter.
- Set aside the cookies with holes in the centers and sift with powdered sugar.
- Spread cranberry compote on the bottom of the whole cookie. Place the dusted powdered sugar cookie on top. Store at room temperature.
For the cranberry compote:
- Peel oranges and finely slice.
- Bring juice, honey, brown sugar, and orange zest to a boil. Then boil for 5 minutes to thicken.
- Petit-dice apples, leaving the skin on if preferred.
- Add cranberries, apples, and brown sugar to the juice, cooking until mixture thickens and the cranberries and apples soften, about 15-20 minutes. Be sure to stir the mixture occasionally.
- Carefully immersion-blend to a sauce to your preferred consistency.
- Cool over ice bath until completely cool. Store in fridge in an airtight container.