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Savory Christmas cheese cookies: you cut them out like Linzer cookies, but without sugar
Savory Christmas cheese cookies made with buttery dough and caraway, cut into shapes and topped with sesame. Makes about 50 cookies.
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- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Total time
- 1 hr 30 min
- Temperature
- 180 °C (350 °F)
- Servings
- 50 cookies
- Difficulty
- Easy
Savory Christmas cheese cookies are tender, buttery cookies with grated cheese and caraway that you cut out just like Linzer cookies, but without sugar. Simply chill the dough for 30 minutes, roll it out, and cut out stars or hearts. Brushed with egg and sprinkled with sesame seeds, they bake in about 13 minutes. Unlike savory puff pastry snacks, these are made with homemade dough and keep in an airtight container for about 2 weeks, so you can bake them ahead.
Ingredients
Dough
Topping
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Instructions
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Make the dough
10 minMix the flour with the salt and ground caraway. Add the cold, cubed butter, cheese, egg yolk, and sour cream, and quickly work into a smooth dough. Avoid kneading for too long so the cookies stay tender.
Chill
30 minWrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Cut out the cookies
20 minPreheat the oven to 180 °C (350 °F) and line baking sheets with parchment paper. Roll the dough out to about 4 mm thick and cut out stars or hearts about 4 cm across. Brush with beaten egg and sprinkle with sesame and caraway seeds.
Bake
30 minBake one sheet at a time at 180 °C (350 °F) for 12–15 minutes, until golden. Let the cookies cool on a wire rack, then store in an airtight container.
Tip: Grate the cheese finely; coarse pieces would melt out of the thin dough and burn around the edges. Edam, Parmesan, or a mixture of the two works well.
Nutrition facts
Approximate values per piece, calculated from the ingredients
- Energy
- 57 kcal
- Protein
- 1.6 g
- Carbohydrates
- 4.0 g
- of which sugars
- 0.1 g
- Fat
- 3.8 g
- of which saturates
- 2.3 g
- Fiber
- 0.2 g
- Salt
- 0.1 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: Chrumkavé slané vianočné pečivo so syrom: vykrajujete ho ako linecké, ale bez cukru
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