These heart-shaped, gluten free strawberry linzer cookies are a wonderful treat for any time, especially for Valentine’s Day. One bite of these strawberry flavored cookies with jam and you will be hooked too!
If you love cookies as much as we do, you will want to check out all of my delicious gluten free cookie recipes!
Valentine’s Day is coming up and I knew I wanted to create a special gluten free linzer cookie just for the occasion.
If you ask my son, who thinks romance is “icky”, he has no idea why I would want to make a heart-shaped cookie. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard “eeewww romance” uttered from his mouth. LOL. Someday he will get it, and when he does, I will make these cookies just for him :-).
One of my very favorite cookie recipes are linzer cookies. They can be filled with all sorts of delicious things like Nutella, frosting, or even strawberry jam. Enjoy this gluten free linzer cookie recipe…and let me know what you would fill yours with.
You may also love this Nutella Stuffed Gluten Free Linzer Cookie recipe or these Gluten Free Gingerbread Linzer Cookies. 🙂 And just in case you are wondering, here are a lot more of my favorite Gluten Free Cookie recipes.
We hope you love these easy gluten free strawberry linzer cookies as much as we did!
If you are making these for Valentine’s Day, here are even more great Gluten Free Desserts for Valentine’s! Linzer cookies look a lot more complicated to make than they are. This gluten free linzer cookie recipe is easy to make, just like sugar cookies.
Are you ready to give this easy gluten freer linzer cookie recipe a try?
How to make gluten free linzer cookies:
I apologize in advance for not having the first few photos to document the steps to making these strawberry linzer cookies. I will outline what I did up to the assembly.
First, add the dry ingredients to a bowl and whisk them to blend. In a separate bowl, add the wet ingredients, including the red food coloring and strawberry jam. Whisk these to mix and then pour them into your dry ingredients. You will get semi-stiff cookie dough.
Dust some wax paper with gluten free flour and place the dough onto the paper. Place another piece of wax paper over the dough and then use a rolling pin to roll the dough to 1/4 inch thickness.
Then, all you need are two cookie cutters of the same shape, one smaller than the other.
These cookies are then cut out and baked. These hearts are cooling off so I can add the jam.
What cookie cutters are best for linzer cookies?
Any linzer cookie cutter is great to use, you can also create your own by using identical cookie cutters in different sizes, for example, a large and small heart cookie cutter.
Once the jam is added, they just need a dusting of powdered sugar or you can even drizzle white chocolate onto the cookies!
Can you make this recipe nut-free?
You can easily make this gluten free cookie recipe nut-free by omitting the almond flour and adding another 1/2 cup of gluten free flour. (Depending on the blend you use and its starch to flour ratio, you may need a little more flour.)
How long will these cookies keep?
These linzer cookies will keep in the refrigerator up to 4 days, but storing these cookies with the jam will make them soggy. If you are not going to eat them right away, I recommend storing them without the jam filling, then filling them when you are ready to eat them.
More Delicious Valentine’s Day Recipes to Try:
Things You Need To Make This Recipe:
- Linzer cookie cutters make these cookies so easy to make.
- My very favorite gluten free flour blend.
Gluten Free Strawberry Linzer Cookies
Easy gluten free strawberry linzer cookie recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup Bob's Red Mill 1 to 1 Gluten Free Flour Blend, (*Note, my flour blend has xanthan gum included. If yours doesn't, add 1 teaspoon.)
- 1 cup almond flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup strawberry jam, this is for dough
- 8-10 drops red food coloring
- 1 large egg
- 1 stick butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- dash salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a mixing bowl, add all wet ingredients.
- Turn on mixer onto low to mix.
- Add half of the dry ingredients.
- Mix on low and gradually increase the speed until it is on medium.
- Turn back to low speed and add the rest of the dry ingredients.
- When the dough is formed, turn off the mixer.
- Dust flour on a sheet of wax paper.
- Put the dough on and add a dusting of flour to the top.
- (My dough was a little sticky so I had to do this.)
- Put another sheet of wax paper on top and use a rolling pin to roll the dough out to 1/4 inch thickness.
- Use a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out hearts.
- Use a smaller heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out hearts in half of the cookies to make a hole.
- (See photo of cookies cooling above to see)
- Place on a piece of parchment paper on a cookie sheet.
- Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes until done.
- Don't let them get brown in the oven.
- Remove from baking sheet from the oven and move the cookies to a cooling rack.
- When cool, spread strawberry jam on the bottom half.
- Top with heart cookie with the smaller heart cut out.
- Dust with powdered sugar.
Notes
Use any shape cookie cutter you like, just make sure you have a smaller version of the shape to cut out the center hole.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 324Total Fat: 18gSaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 36mgSodium: 161mgCarbohydrates: 38gFiber: 2gSugar: 17gProtein: 4g
(*This post was updated from an older January 2017 post.)
Kathy
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Sandi Gaertner
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Cecília
Can I make without strawberry jam in the dough. I would like to use it for the filling. Do I have substitute with something else? Thank you for read my comment. Happy New year
Sandi Gaertner
Hi Cecilia, I have a gluten free linzer tart recipe that has no jam in the dough if you prefer: https://www.fearlessdining.com/gluten-free-linzer-tart-cookies/
April
I always think of linzer cookies for Christmas, but the heart-shaped ones are perfect for Valentine’s day 🙂 They seem really easy to make, too!
Sandi Gaertner
Thank you so much April. We love to make gluten free linzer cookies for all holidays 😉
Manila Spoon
These linzer cookies look gorgeous and love that they’re gluten-free which means my hubby can enjoy them!! Yay!
Sandi Gaertner
That is wonderful 🙂 I hope he likes them.
Maryb
Has anyone actually made these cookies? All the comments are about how they look pretty.
Liz @ I Heart Vegetables
These are so perfect for valentine’s day! I have so many gluten free friends that I know would appreciate these!
Sandi Gaertner
Thank you Liz 🙂
Kay
Your recipe looks amazing! I’m a little confused about the strawberry jam. The comment says the jam is for the dough. This is for spreading on top of dough only, right? Or do you add some to the dough too?
Sandi Gaertner
Hi Kay, the jam is in the cookie and used as filling for these strawberry cookies. Extra jam is then used for the filling. (I recently made this with Nutella in the middle and it was pretty yummy too 🙂
Platter Talk
Beautiful job with these little linzers, Sandy! You have outdone yourself with this post; happy Valentine’s Day to you and yours!
Rebecca B.
Absolutely gorgeous!! I love your gluten free strawberry linzer cookies and they would make the perfect Valentine’s Day treat!!
Sandi Gaertner
Thank you Rebecca 🙂
Diane
What show stopping pictures! Nicely done! I haven’t ever made these Linzer cookies. Now I want them so much I may just have to get into the kitchen and get started. When you make them for your son one day…you can tell him he is eating his own words. Pretty sure he won’t mind a bit!
Sandi Gaertner
Wow, thank you Diane 🙂
Mahy
Sandi–these not only look gorgeous, they look like a melt in your mouth sweet treat! Perfect with a cup of coffee anytime!
Sandi Gaertner
They do sort of melt in your mouth 🙂
Marisa Franca @ All Our Way
As many years as I’ve been in the kitchen baking I’ve never made Linzer cookies. I did something like a stained glass cookie years ago but your cookies look wonderful. You’ve certainly inspired me to give it a go. Great pictures too
Sandi Gaertner
You need to give it a try Marisa…they are so fun to fill.
Gloria @ Homemade & Yummy
These look so pretty. I have just started to venture into the “gluten free” baking area. We have some friends that prefer it, so I am always looking for things to make when we go there for dinner.
Sandi Gaertner
I hope your friends like them Gloria 🙂
Patricia @ Grab a Plate
Linzer cookies are so, so pretty, and yours are especially fabulous! Love your photos (and the cookies, of course)! This, in fact, are “swoon-worthy!”
Sandi Gaertner
Thank you Patricia 🙂
The Food Hunter
They are very pretty!
Amanda
What beautiful cookies to celebrate Valentine’s Day! And, too cute about your son. I remember those days, though they were long ago! “Icky romance,” haha.
Sandi Gaertner
Thank you Amanda…boys are pretty funny 🙂
cheryl@neuroticbaker
I love the strawberry heart shaped cookies. So pretty!
Sandi Gaertner
Thank you so much Cheryl 🙂