Chocolate Espresso Linzer Cookies

7. 10. 2025

These chocolate espresso linzer cookies are delicate, buttery, crisp, and perfect for Christmas!

Despite the long process of chilling and rolling out the dough, these cookies are surprisingly easy to make and only require ten ingredients.

Make these for someone special to let them know how much you care!

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup of almond flour
• 2 Tbsp espresso powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• 3/4 cup of granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla paste or extract

For the chocolate ganache:

• 1/2 cup baking chocolate
• 1/4 cup heavy cream

Method:

1. Whisk together the flour, almond flour, espresso powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar for 2-3 minutes until light and fluffy.
3. Add the egg and vanilla to the butter and sugar mixture and mix until fully combined. 
4. Add the dry ingredients in two batches, mixing on low speed until everything is mostly combined. 
5. Use a rubber spatula to scrape the bottom of the bowl and finish combining the dough. It will seem dry, but that’s okay. 
6. Divide the dough in two, shape it into disks, and wrap it tightly with plastic wrap. Chill it in the fridge for at least one hour or up to a few days.
7. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line two baking sheets with parchment paper. 
8. On a lightly floured surface, roll out one disk of dough to ⅛” in thickness. Use a 2 ½” fluted round cutter and a 1″ heart cutter. Cut out an even number of solid cookies and cookies with a heart cutout. 
9. Bake the frozen cutout cookies for about 10 minutes and the tiny hearts for about 8 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool completely on the baking sheet.
10. Repeat with the remaining cookie dough.  
11. Then, prepare the chocolate ganache. In a heat-proof bowl, combine the chocolate and heavy cream. 
12. Heat in the microwave in 15-second intervals. Gently stir between each interval. 
13. Bake for 1Once fully melted and combined, allow to sit for just a few minutes to cool down, then immediately use to assemble cookies.

For cookie assembly:

• Pair the Linzer cookies up and sprinkle powdered sugar and/or cocoa powder on the top heart cookies.
• Spread a thin layer of chocolate ganache on the bottom cookie, then place the paired cookie on top. 

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