🍪 Linzer & Isler Cookies – Traditional Hungarian Tea Cookies 🇭🇺✨
🥨 1. Linzer Cookies (Linzer Karika)
Linzer cookies are delicate sandwich cookies, filled with apricot or raspberry jam and often dusted with powdered sugar. They’re made from a rich, nutty dough (sometimes with ground almonds or hazelnuts).
🛒 Ingredients:
250 g (2 cups) all-purpose flour
150 g (⅔ cup) butter, cold and cubed
100 g (½ cup) powdered sugar
1 egg yolk
Zest of 1 lemon
Pinch of salt
½ tsp vanilla extract
Jam for filling (apricot, raspberry, etc.)
Powdered sugar for dusting
🍫 2. Isler Cookies (Isler Keksz)
Isler cookies are a rich, elegant treat: two buttery rounds filled with jam and coated in dark chocolate. Named after the Austrian city of Ischl, they’re beloved across Hungary.
🛒 Ingredients:
250 g (2 cups) flour
150 g (⅔ cup) butter
100 g (½ cup) powdered sugar
1 egg yolk
½ tsp vanilla
Jam for filling (typically raspberry or red currant)
150 g dark chocolate for coating
Would you like the step-by-step instructions for one or both? 😊
