{"id":1981,"slug":"linzer-torte-bar-cookies","title":"Linzer Torte Bar Cookies","description":null,"ingredients_raw":["1½ cup (3 sticks) (340 g) Butter, slightly softened","2 cups (400 g) White granulated sugar","4 tsp (20 ml) (7 g) Unsweetened cocoa","¼ tsp (2.5 ml) Salt","¼ tsp (1.25 ml) Ground cloves","2 tsp (10 ml) Ground cinnamon","3 Whole eggs","3 cups (250 g) Hazelnut flour (ground whole hazelnuts/filberts)","2½ cups (300 g) All-purpose flour","1 cup (300 g) Fruit preserves, preferably raspberry or apricot"],"ingredients_norm":["butter","white granulated sugar","unsweetened cocoa","salt","ground clove","ground cinnamon","whole egg","hazelnut flour","all purpose flour","fruit preserve"],"steps":["Preheat oven to 350 °F (175°C, gas mark 4—moderate).","Put the butter in a large mixing bowl, and beat it with an electric mixer for about 30 seconds. Alternatively, beat it with a wooden spoon until soft.","Beat in the sugar, cocoa, salt, cloves, and cinnamon, scraping the bowl as needed, until you have a smooth, dark mixture.","Beat in the eggs.","Stir in the flour and hazelnut flour. If the butter was cold when you started, this step may be difficult.","Spread about three-quarters of the cookie dough in the baking pan, reserving the remaining quarter for the topping.","Spread the fruit preserves evenly over the raw dough in the baking pan.","Drop the remaining cookie dough by spoonfuls on top of the fruit preserves. If desired, these can be flattened using the back of a spoon, wet fingers, or the waxed paper wrappers from the butter.","Bake in the preheated oven for about 35 minutes, until a wooden toothpick comes out clean.","Cool in the pan. Cut into 32 bars (4x8 grid)."],"categories":["Cookie recipes","Baking recipes","Recipes using butter","Recipes using granulated sugar","Recipes using all-purpose flour","Recipes using cocoa powder","Recipes using salt","Recipes using clove","Recipes using cinnamon","Recipes using egg","Recipes using hazelnut","Recipes using fruit preserves","Recipes for cookies"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":60,"servings":null,"yield_text":"32 bar cookies","difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Linzer_Torte_Bar_Cookies","source_ref":"4530185","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Linzer_Torte_Bar_Cookies&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"dac92dbf5a5246cc4ca69dd472a1dd7ea8eceb25a8495c28611a999e55ef07da","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:08Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/linzer-torte-bar-cookies"}