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Marbled Linzer Cookies with Vanilla and Cocoa Dough

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You're making two doughs — vanilla-lemon and cocoa-orange — that you'll tear into pieces and layer together to create striking marble patterns. The key to showing off those beautiful swirls is rolling the dough out as little as possible and skipping any sugar dusting or chocolate coating. Each batch takes about 44 minutes to prep and 9 minutes to bake, plus at least three days for the cookies to mellow in storage.

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    Cube the butter for both doughs

    Cut the butter into roughly 1 cm cubes, divide it into two batches of 100 g each and return both to the fridge. It will chill while you prepare the other ingredients.


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    Prepare two flavor bases

    Divide the sugar into 50 g and 58 g portions. Grate lemon zest into the first and orange zest into the second. Split the vanilla bean seeds between the two and rub them in with your fingertips.


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    Beat the egg yolk

    Beat one egg yolk with a fork and weigh out 9 g of it twice. This is more accurate than trying to halve a yolk.


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Marbled Linzer Cookies with Vanilla and Cocoa Dough

everydaybyyumsto
Active time total 53 min
Prep 44 min Cook 9 min
Plus overnight of resting (not counted in active time)

12 Ingredients

15 Steps

Hard Difficulty

Ingredients — what you'll need

You only need 12 ingredients

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Equipment

What you'll need besides the ingredients.

Baking paper
Rolling pin
Baking sheet
Cooling rack
Sieve

What's in it?

840 kcal

Calories

108 g

Carbohydrates

44 g

Fats

11 g

Proteins

The nutritional information is an estimate and may vary based on the specific ingredients used.

About this recipe

Every cookie looks different, and no two are alike ✨ You tear the light and cocoa doughs into walnut-sized pieces, stack them alternately in a pile and press down with your palm — and what comes out from under the rolling pin is out of your hands. That's exactly the fun of it. It's the most eye-catching cookie in the whole tin, yet there's nothing difficult about it, because the two doughs are really the same recipe, just one with cocoa. Stick to one rule, though: this cookie is not dusted with sugar or dipped in chocolate. That would cover up the marbling you're making it for in the first place. And don't roll it out smooth — the fewer passes with the rolling pin, the bolder the pattern. So let's bake — you're going to love this one 💜

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