Linzer Kipferl – Austrian Chocolate Dipped Crescent Sandwich Cookies

7. 10. 2025

These Linzer Kipferl are very easy to make.

Just a few ingredients, no need to chill the dough. Just a little elbow grease to pipe the dough into the crescent shapes, a relatively short baking time, and then time for cooling, making jam sandwiches, and dipping into chocolate.

And a little more chilling.

You can make a whole batch of these in under two hours easily. 

Ingredients

For the dough

• 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
• 2 sticks plus 1 ½ tbsp butter
• 1 teaspoon of lemon zest
• 1 cup sour cream
• pinch of salt

For filling

• 2 oz whole milk
• 1/3 cup powdered sugar
• 1 cup finely ground walnuts
• lemon zest from half a lemon
• 1/2 cup caster sugar mixed with vanilla sugar (for sprinkling)

Method

• Mix the flour, a pinch of salt, and the chopped butter in a large bowl until the mixture is crumbly.
• Add one teaspoon of lemon zest and sour cream and knead until it comes together into a soft dough.
• Cover the dough with plastic wrap and let it rest for 20 minutes.
• Bring the milk to a boil in a saucepan, add the powdered sugar, nuts, and the zest of half a lemon, and mix well.
• Let cool completely.
• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Line a baking tray with baking paper.
• Roll out the dough on a floured surface.
• Cut out circles with a cookie cutter with a diameter of 3 inches.
• Place one teaspoon of walnut filling on each wheel.
• Gently roll and shape into a crescent shape (roll).
• Bake for about 25 minutes.
• Even immediately after baking, coat them in the sugar mixture.

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