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3.0 – 2 reviews • Cookie
| Level: |
Easy |
| Total: |
35 min |
| Prep: |
20 min |
| Cook: |
15 min |
| Yield: |
40 cookies |
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups whole almonds
- 1 cup pecans
- 11/2 cups granulated sugar
- 5 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 5 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 6 large egg yolks
- Grated zest of 1 lemon
- Grated zest of 1 orange
- 1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1 cup seedless raspberry preserves
Instructions
- Position racks in the lower and upper third of the oven and preheat to 350. Place the almonds and pecans on a baking sheet; toast on the upper oven rack until lightly browned and fragrant, about 8 minutes. Let cool, then pulse in a food processor with 1/4 cup granulated sugar until finely ground. (Don’t overprocess or the mixture will turn into a paste.) Turn off the oven.
- Whisk the flour, cinnamon, cardamom and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- Using a mixer, beat the butter and the remaining 11/4 cups granulated sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla extract, egg yolks, and the lemon and orange zest; add the ground nuts. Add the flour mixture, mixing just until incorporated (do not overmix). Divide the dough into 2 pieces; place 1 piece between 2 lightly floured sheets of parchment paper and roll into a 14-inch square, about 1/4-inch thick. Repeat with the other piece of dough. Refrigerate both rectangles, covered with the parchment sheets, until firm, at least 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350. Cut the dough into hearts with a 21/4- to 21/2-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter. Using a smaller heart-shaped cutter (about 11/2 inches), cut out the centers from half of the cookies (you can reroll the centers and scraps). Place the cookies, about 1 inch apart, on baking sheets and bake 2 sheets at a time until the edges are golden, 12 to 15 minutes, rotating the sheets halfway through. Cool on wire racks.
- Sift confectioners’ sugar over the cookies. Spread 1 teaspoon raspberry preserves evenly over each whole heart cookie, leaving a slight border around the edge; top with the cut-out heart cookies.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size |
1 of 40 servings |
| Calories |
349 |
| Total Fat |
17 g |
| Saturated Fat |
8 g |
| Carbohydrates |
48 g |
| Dietary Fiber |
2 g |
| Sugar |
33 g |
| Protein |
4 g |
| Cholesterol |
58 mg |
| Sodium |
64 mg |
