If you love shortbread, you'll swoon for these linzer cookies. Two buttery cookies sandwich jam, and a sprinkling of powdered sugar sweetens each bite.

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Cheryl Margolin of Lake Elsinore was one of the 10 winners of last year’s Los Angeles Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off with her chocolate raspberry linzer cookies: “I started making these six or seven ...

Note: These cookies are also terrific plain or sandwiched with raspberry or other jam. If you don’t have 2 1/2- and 1-inch round cookie cutters, use different shapes or, instead of the smaller cutter, ...

Seated around the Kurczewski holiday cookie table are, clockwise, from left, John Meyers, Brenda Kurczewski’s father; Brenda Kurczewski; Matthew Kurczewski, son of Brenda and Lothar Kurczewski; Lothar ...

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The 'Bake Smart' cookbook author uses ground walnuts and buckwheat flour for this twist on a classic Sabrina Weiss is the Editorial Assistant of PEOPLE's food department. She writes the weekly recipes ...

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Two years ago, the winning recipe of our Berks Country magazine cookie baking contest was a traditional Linzer cookie. I have fond memories of being invited to help judge the cookies. The Linzer ...

You just cannot resist a tray of these, buttery, confectioners' sugar-dusted, jam-packed cookies on your festival table. Make this Christmas merrier with these delicious and easy Linzer cookies. Beat ...