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 linzer heart cookies with jam and you will be hooked too!
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Valentine's Day is coming up and I knew I wanted to create a special gluten free linzer cookie just for the occasion. I took my favorite Austrian linzer cookies recipe and made a special version for Valentine's.
One of my very favorite cookie recipes is linzer cookies. They can be filled with all sorts of delicious things like Nutella, frosting, strawberry or raspberry jam. Enjoy this gluten free linzer cookie recipe...and let me know what you would fill yours with.
If you love cookies as much as we do, you will want to check out all of my delicious gluten free cookie recipes!
Why I love these cookies:
These cookies are one of my favorites because they have a little bit of fruitiness in the cookies. This is a simple recipe and is easy to use cookie cutters for all sorts of holidays.
You may also love this Nutella Stuffed Gluten Free Linzer Cookie recipe or these Gluten Free Gingerbread Linzer Cookies. 🙂 We hope you love these easy gluten free strawberry linzer cookies as much as we did!
Are you ready to give this easy gluten freer linzer cookie recipe a try?
Ingredient notes:
- Gluten free flour blend - I have tested this recipe with King Arthur Measure for Measure GF, Bob's Red Mill 1 to 1 GF blend, and Authentic Foods Multi Blend. That doesn't mean others will not work, I just have not tested other flours.
- If your gluten free flour blend doesn’t contain Xanthan Gum or Guar Gum, please add 1 teaspoon.
- Butter - Use unsalted butter. To make this recipe dairy-free, substitute the butter for vegan butter.
- Almond flour - I highly suggest using almond flour and not almond meal. Almond meal is more coarse and will make your cookies grainy.
- Jam - I used strawberry jam, but a seedless raspberry jam also tastes delicious.
Recipe step by step directions:
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.
Step 1: Add the dry ingredients to a large bowl and whisk them to blend evenly.
Step 2: In a separate bowl, add the wet ingredients, including the red food coloring and strawberry jam. Whisk until everything is mixed together.
Step 3: Pour the wet ingredients into your dry ingredients. Mix your cookie dough until everything is blended. You will get a semi-stiff cookie dough.
Step 4: Wrap the linzer cookie dough in plastic wrap. Refrigerate the dough for an hour.
Step 5: 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 ¼ inch thickness.
Step 6: Grab either linzer cookie cutters or two cookie cutters of the same shape, one smaller than the other. Press the cookie cutters into the dough and place the shaped cookie dough onto a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet.
Step 7: Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes (depending on the thickness of the dough) at 350º F.
Step 8: Allow the cookies to cool, then spread jam on the bottom cookie. Place the matching cookie with the cut-out on top of the jam.
Step 9: Dust with powdered sugar or you can even drizzle white chocolate onto the cookies!
Expert Tips and Recipe FAQ:
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.
You can easily make this gluten free cookie recipe nut-free by omitting the almond flour and adding another ½ cup of gluten free flour. (Depending on the blend you use and its starch to flour ratio, you may need a little more flour.)
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.
I lightly sprayed my cookie cutters with coconut oil spray to prevent sticking.
More Delicious Valentine's Day Recipes:
- Dark Chocolate Custard
- White Chocolate Fudge Hearts
- Chocolate Raspberry Trifle
- Raspberry French Macarons
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 but I promise they are easy!
Recipe
Gluten Free Strawberry Linzer Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cup gluten free flour blend * see note
- 1 cup almond flour * see note
- ¾ cup sugar
- ⅓ cup strawberry jam * see note
- 8-10 drops red food coloring
- 1 large egg
- 1 stick butter melted
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- dash salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º F.
- 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. Wrap the dough into plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Dust a tiny bit of gluten free flour on a sheet of wax paper.
- Put the dough on and add a dusting of flour to the top.
- Put another sheet of wax paper on top and use a rolling pin to roll the dough out to ¼ 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.
- 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.
- I have tested this recipe with King Arthur Measure for Measure GF, Bob's Red Mill 1 to 1 GF blend, and Authentic Foods Multi Blend. That doesn't mean others will not work, I just have not tested other flours.
- If your gluten free flour blend doesn’t contain Xanthan Gum or Guar Gum, please add 1 teaspoon.
- To make this recipe dairy-free, substitute the butter for vegan butter.
- I highly suggest using almond flour and not almond meal. Almond meal is more coarse and will make your cookies grainy.
- To make this recipe nut-free, omit the almond flour and substitute additional ¾ cup gluten free flour blend.
- You can use strawberry or seedless raspberry jam to keep these cookies pink.
- These cookies will keep up to 4 days in an air-tight container, or up to 4 months in the freezer.
Nutrition
Nutrition Disclaimer
Nutritional information is an estimate provided to you as a courtesy. You should calculate the actual nutritional information with the products and brands you are using with your preferred nutritional calculator.
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(*This post was updated from an older January 2017 post.)
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 🙂