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Linzer cookies with 4 ingredients – old-fashioned recipe

Name: Linzer cookies with 4 ingredients – old-fashioned recipe
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 450 g All-purpose flour (fine wheat flour); 300 g Butter; 150 g Powdered sugar; 1 Egg yolk; 1 pinch Lemon zest (to taste); 1 pinch Cloves (crushed, to taste); 200 g Jam (slightly tart, or plum butter)

Traditional Christmas Linzer cookies from flour, butter, powdered sugar and an egg yolk, made the old-fashioned way. Bake 10–15 minutes at 160 °C (325 °F).

Slovak cuisine · Christmas cookies and baking · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10–15 min
Temperature: 160 °C (325 °F)
Servings: 10 servings
Difficulty: Medium
Cuisine: Slovak

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Old-fashioned Linzer cookies (linecké pečivo) from just 4 ingredients are a traditional Christmas treat made only from flour, butter, powdered sugar, and an egg yolk. Work the dough quickly so the butter does not get too soft; for a nicer aroma you can add a pinch of lemon zest and a little clove. The dough then rests in the refrigerator for an hour, is rolled out, and any shapes can be cut from it. The cookies bake at 160 °C (325 °F) for only 10 to 15 minutes.

Ingredients

10 servings

All-purpose flour (fine wheat flour) 450 g
Butter 300 g
Powdered sugar 150 g
Egg yolk 1
Lemon zest (to taste) 1 pinch
Cloves (crushed, to taste) 1 pinch

For sandwiching

Jam (slightly tart, or plum butter) 200 g

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Instructions

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Mix the flour with the powdered sugar, add the cold butter cut into pieces and the egg yolk, and quickly work everything into a smooth dough so the butter does not soften too much. For a better aroma, add a little crushed clove and a pinch of lemon zest.
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and let it rest in the refrigerator for about 1 hour. Then roll it out on a floured board and cut out any shapes you like.
Arrange the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 160 °C (325 °F) for 10–15 minutes.
Tip: to sandwich the cookies, use a slightly tart jam, which brings out the sweetness of the pastry. Homemade, slightly tart plum butter (thick plum jam) is also an excellent choice.

Tip: Roll out the dough in small portions between two sheets of plastic wrap, so it picks up no extra flour and the cookies stay tender. Keep the rest in the refrigerator in the meantime.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 499 kcal
Protein: 5.3 g
Carbohydrates: 63 g
of which sugars: 25 g
Fat: 25 g
of which saturates: 15 g
Fiber: 1.5 g
Salt: 0.0 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Linecké pečivo zo 4 surovín podľa starého receptu