Hungarian Linzer Cookies – Traditional Lekváros Linzer 🇭🇺
Hungarian Linzer Cookies, often called Lekváros Linzer, are delicate, buttery sandwich cookies filled with sweet fruit jam and finished with a light dusting of powdered sugar. The cookies in your photo have the classic appearance: two small scalloped biscuits sandwiched together with bright red jam and decorated with a beautiful white topping.
These elegant Hungarian cookies are especially popular during Christmas, weddings, birthdays, and family celebrations.
🇭🇺 What Are Hungarian Linzer Cookies?
Linzer cookies are tender shortbread-style biscuits traditionally made with butter, flour, sugar, and egg yolks.
Two cookies are joined with a layer of fruit jam, most commonly apricot, raspberry, strawberry, or plum.
Some versions have a small opening in the top cookie so the colorful jam can be seen in the center. Others are decorated with powdered sugar, icing, or piped cream, like the cookies shown in your photo.
🧈 Ingredients
For the Cookies
2½ cups (315 g) all-purpose flour
1 cup (225 g) unsalted butter, softened
¾ cup (90 g) powdered sugar
3 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
½ teaspoon baking powder
Pinch of salt
For the Filling
¾ cup (200 g) apricot, raspberry, strawberry, or plum jam
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