• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Hungry Happenings
  • RECIPES
    • All Recipes
    • Dessert Recipes
    • Decorated Cookies
    • Decorated Cakes
    • Cheesecake Recipes
    • Everyday Desserts
    • Homemade Candy
    • Everyday Meals
    • Readers’ Gallery
    • Hungry Happenings Blog Posts
  • HOW TO
    • Chocolate Making Tips
    • Chocolate Making Course (video lessons)
    • Make Modeling Chocolate
      • Modeling Chocolate Recipe and Tutorial
      • How to Color Modeling Chocolate
      • How to Store and Work with Modeling Chocolate
      • How to Fix Greasy Modeling Chocolate
      • How to Fix Dry Modeling Chocolate
      • Use Colored Candy Melts to Make Candy Clay
    • Candy Clay Creations
    • How To Color White Chocolate and Candy Melts and Paint Candy Molds
    • How to Use Food Coloring Markers
  • HOLIDAYS
    • ALL HOLIDAY RECIPES
    • Valentine's Day
    • St. Patrick's Day
    • Easter
    • 4th of July
    • Halloween
      • Hungry Halloween
    • Thanksgiving
    • Christmas
    • New Year's Eve
    • MORE HOLIDAYS
      • Mother's Day
      • Father's Day
      • April Fools
      • Chinese New Year
      • Cinco de Mayo
      • Day of the Dead
      • Earth Day
      • Mardi Gras
  • PARTY FOOD
    • Super Bowl
    • Graduation
    • Birthday Party
    • March Madness
    • Summer Fun
    • Baby Shower
    • Wedding Shower
    • School/Teacher
    • Movie and T.V. Characters
    • Kid's Treats
    • Fun Party Recipes
  • MY COOKBOOKS
  • ABOUT
  • MY BLOGS
    • HowToMakeCerealTreats.com
    • HowToMakeEasyCookies.com
    • HowToMakeEasyFudge.com
    • TheSugarAcademy.com
menu icon
go to homepage
  • recipes
  • chocolate
  • about
  • cookbooks
  • subscribe
  • holiday recipes
  • Halloween recipes
  • party food
  • appetizers
  • decorated cheese balls
  • cute food for kids
  • dessert recipes
  • homemade chocolates recipes
  • homemade candy
  • decorated cakes
  • cupcake recpes
  • cheesecake recipes
  • cookie recipes
  • rice krispie treats recipes
  • fudge recipes
  • ice cream recipes
  • popcorn recipes
  • everyday meals
  • recipe roundups
  • readers' gallery
    • Facebook
    • Pinterest
    • YouTube
  • search icon
    Homepage link
    • recipes
    • chocolate
    • about
    • cookbooks
    • subscribe
    • holiday recipes
    • Halloween recipes
    • party food
    • appetizers
    • decorated cheese balls
    • cute food for kids
    • dessert recipes
    • homemade chocolates recipes
    • homemade candy
    • decorated cakes
    • cupcake recpes
    • cheesecake recipes
    • cookie recipes
    • rice krispie treats recipes
    • fudge recipes
    • ice cream recipes
    • popcorn recipes
    • everyday meals
    • recipe roundups
    • readers' gallery
    • Facebook
    • Pinterest
    • YouTube
  • ×
    Home » Recipes » Mother's Day

    Linzer Cookie Daisies

    Published: Apr 28, '18 · Modified: Aug 14, '23 · By: Beth Klosterboer · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Jump to Recipe

    Turn crispy almond cookies filled with raspberry jam or lemon curd into beautiful flowers with colorful petals. These delicate Linzer Cookie Daisies will make wonderful treats for Mother's Day, a bridal shower, an afternoon tea, or a birthday party.

    daisy-shaped linzer cookies filled with lemon curd and raspberry preserves

    It's wonderful to create a special treat for someone who truly appreciates it. These beautiful daisy-shaped Linzer Cookies were made for my mom's birthday celebration and she thought they were fabulous. She liked them so much that she took all the leftovers home to enjoy. I love that!

    It makes me feel good when someone enjoys my homemade treats enough to want to hoard them. That's the highest compliment I can get.

    Fill these pretty Linzer Cookie Daisies with raspberry preserves or lemon curd to make them colorful and bright. These daisy cookies make perfect treats for a Mother's Day party, a bridal shower, an afternoon tea, or ladies luncheon.

    What's not to love about these crisp daisy-shaped almond cookies that are speckled with lemon zest and sandwiched with a layer of sweet raspberry jam or tart lemon curd and sprinkled with powdered sugar?

    They are my mom's absolute favorite cookies and she loved that I cut them into daisies.

    I've seen Linzer Cookie Daisies with a whole cut in the middle so it looks like they have a yellow center. I thought the daisies would look prettier if the color was in the petals so I made the cuts around the petals. I love how the color of the filling shows through and hope you do too.

    Let's make some daisy cookies.

    Ingredients

    • butter - Use softened unsalted butter to make this dough. Set the butter out on your counter about an hour before you plan to make the dough or cut it into small pieces and place the pieces into your mixing bowl about 30 minutes before you plan to make the dough.
    • sugar - This will add sweetness and structure to your cookies. 
    • egg yolks - Egg yolks add richness and will help to tenderize the cookie dough so that these crispy cookies aren't dry and hard.
    • vanilla - Use pure vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste.
    • blanched almond slivers - Almonds add a nutty flavor and nice crunch to these cookies. 
    • flour - Use all-purpose flour for structure. 
    • salt - Table salt balances the sweetness. 
    • lemon zest - Use a Microplane grate to zest a lemon, grating just the bright yellow peel, avoiding the bitter white pith. 
    • powdered sugar - Dust the tops of your Linzer Cookies with a sprinkling of powdered sugar. This looks pretty and adds a little sweetness.
    • seedless raspberry jam or lemon curd - These make delicious fillings that will add nice color to your cookies.

    Supplies

    You can find the supplies needed to make these cookies at Amazon.com. I earn a small commission when you use affiliate links at NO extra cost to you.

        

    Instructions

    Toasted almonds ground into fine crumbs in a food processor.

    Roast and grind the almonds.

    1. Roast 1 cup of blanched almond slivers (blanched nuts have their skins removed) in a 350-degree F (177° C) oven for about 5-6 minutes (or in a skillet set over medium-low heat). Be sure to keep an eye on the almonds as they can burn quickly. Once you start to smell the nutty aroma, remove them from the oven or skillet.
    2. Allow them to cool completely.
    3. Then, grind them in a food processor with ¼ cup of granulated sugar until they become fine crumbs.
    mixing Linzer cookie dough in a KitchenAid mixer.

    Make the Linzer cookie dough.

    • Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
    • Then add the egg yolks and vanilla.
    • Add the almond/sugar mixture and stir just to combine.
    • Whisk together a tablespoon of fresh lemon zest, ½ teaspoon of salt, and 2 cups of all-purpose flour, then stir it into the dough just until it's combined.
    cut out daisy cookies, dough on blue silicone mat, cut teardrop shapes out of daisy, baked daisy cookies on baking sheets.

    Cut out the daisy cookies and bake.

    • Roll the cookie dough out onto a silicone baking mat or flour-dusted cutting board.
    • Cut using a large daisy cookie cutter.
    • Cut teardrop-shaped holes into half of the cookie creating the petals.
    • Bake.

    Note: If it is warm in your kitchen and your dough feels to soft, you may want to chill the dough for about 30 minutes before cutting out your cookies.

    dusting powdered sugar over the cut-out daisy cookies, cookies topped with lemon curd and jelly, and assembled Linzer cookie daisies.

    Fill and dust with powdered sugar.

    • Dust the cookies with the teardrop-shaped holes cut out with powdered sugar.
    • Spread preserves, jam, jelly, or lemon curd over the whole daisy cookies.
    • Top each of those cookies with one that's been dusted with powdered sugar so the color shows through.

    Tips

    • Linzer cookies are crisp and have a slightly sandy texture.
    • These cookies will soften once sandwiched with the filling.
      • To ensure crisp cookies, fill them about an hour before serving. Of course, they are darn good once they soften up too.
    • The Linzer cookies will keep for up to a week if stored in the refrigerator.
    • Fill your Linzer cookie daisies with raspberry jam or lemon curd. Other jams, preserves, jellies, and spreads will work well too.
    • Be sure to dust your cookies with powdered sugar before you sandwich them together so the jam or curd really shows through.
    • If you want to freeze them, place the plain cookies in an airtight container and freeze for up to a month then remove them and fill them before serving.

    Variations

    You can also cut Linzer Cookies into other shapes.

    A variety of heart, daisy, and round shaped linzer cookies filled with raspberry preserves, lemon curd and Nutella are arranged on a cooling rack.

    Make traditional Linzer Cookies using small cut-outs in the middle of round or flower-shaped cookies.

    heart-shaped Mother's Day cookies filled with raspberry jam showing a cut-out "I (heart) you."

    Cut out large heart-shaped Linzer Cookies and add a sweet message like "I (heart) Mom".

    Video

    Be sure to watch the video to see how to make these cute daisy cookies.

     

    Recipe

    daisy-shaped linzer cookies filled with lemon curd and raspberry preserves
    Print
    Linzer Cookie Daisies
    Prep Time
    40 mins
    Cook Time
    14 mins
    Total Time
    54 mins
     
    Pretty daisy shaped sandwich cookies filled with lemon curd or fruit preserves.
    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: Viennese
    Keyword: fruit cookies, linzer cookies
    Servings: 12
    Author: Beth Klosterboer
    Ingredients
    • 1 cup blanched almond slivers*
    • ¾ cup granulated sugar, divided
    • 2 cups all purpose flour (260 grams)
    • ½ teaspoon table salt
    • 1 tablespoon lemon zest
    • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
    • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
    • 2 large egg yolks
    • powdered sugar, to dust over cookies
    • ½ cup ­raspberry jam or lemon curd, plus more if needed
    * note about almonds
    • You can use 4 ounces of almond meal in place of the slivered almonds. Toasting the almond meal will bring out the flavor but processing it in the food processor is unnecessary.If you use the almond meal, simply cream all of the sugar with the butter.
    Instructions
    1. Heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
    2. Spread almonds out on a baking sheet, and toast for about 5 minutes, until golden brown.
    3. Remove and pour nuts into the bowl of a food processor and let cool for at least 10 minutes.
    4. Add ¼ cup of the sugar and pulse until the nuts become finely ground.
    5. Whisk flour, salt, and lemon zest together.
    6. Cream butter and ½ cup sugar together just until it becomes pale yellow.
    7. Stir in vanilla then egg yolks and mix until combined.
    8. Mix in the ground almonds.
    9. Add dry ingredients and mix just until combined.
    10. Remove dough from bowl, divide in half, then flatten into two discs.
    11. Refrigerate for 10-15 minutes.
    12. Dust a silicone mat or cutting board with flour.
    13. Roll 1 disc of cookie dough out to ⅛ inch thickness.
    14. Cut 12 daisies using a 4 inch daisy shaped cookie cutter.
    15. Remove excess dough and freeze daisies for 5 minutes until firm.
    16. Move cookies to a parchment lined baking sheet and bake for 12-16 minutes until lightly golden brown.
    17. Roll the remaining dough and cut 9 or 10 daisies.
    18. Use 1 ¼ inch tear drop cookie cutter to cut out holes in each petal, leaving a small border around the edge of the cookie.
    19. Remove excess dough.
    20. Re-roll dough until you get 3 more daisies with holes in the petals.
    21. Freeze the 12 cut-out daisies for 10 minutes then move to parchment paper lined baking sheet.
    22. Bake for about 12-14 minutes until lightly golden brown.
    23. Allow the cookies to cool completely, then dust with powdered sugar.
    24. Spread raspberry jam or lemon curd on the whole daisy cookies.
    25. Place one cut-­out cookie on top of the jam and gently sandwich the cookies together.

    If you like this Linzer Cookie Daisies recipe, you might also like these other pretty daisy-themed food crafts...

    Pretty daisy themed food crafts are wonderful to serve for Mother's Day, a wedding shower, an afternoon tea, or a spring birthday party.

    Decorated Daisy Cheesecake • Mini Daisy Cakes
    Easy Daisy Pastries • Biscuit Daisy BBQ Sandwiches
    Daisy Appetizers • Daisy Cheese Ball Wedding Cake
    Deviled Egg Daisy • Stamped Daisy Biscuits

    • Author
    • Recent Posts
    Beth Klosterboer
    Beth Klosterboer
    Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com
    Beth Klosterboer
    Latest posts by Beth Klosterboer (see all)
    • Mini Peanut Butter Cheesecakes - June 20, 2023
    • Homemade Chocolate Easter Bunnies - April 3, 2023
    • Mini Basketball Cheeseburgers - February 15, 2023

    More Mother's Day Recipes

    • Soft and chewy Coconut Macaroon Cups filed with homemade blueberry curd are topped with a dollop of whipped cream and some fresh blueberries.
      Coconut Macaroon Cups filled with Fresh Blueberry Curd
    • Daisy cheesecake with a pretty pink, smiley face daisy painted on top
      Daisy Cheesecake
    • heart-shaped empire cookies are filled with raspberry preserves and are topped with a sweet glaze
      Empire Cookie Hearts
    • Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Cake with a layer of flourless chocolate cake topped with chocolate mousse and white chocolate raspberry mousse
      Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Cake

    About Beth Klosterboer

    Reader Interactions

    Comments

      Please leave a comment. Cancel reply

      Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

      Recipe Rating




      This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

    1. Karen @ Sugartown Sweets

      May 11, 2016 at 9:40 pm

      I have always wanted to try making Linzer cookies-have no idea why i haven't yet-and you have created, as your Mom said, fabulous ones! These really are beautiful and I can see why she wanted to take all the left overs home! 🙂

      Reply
      • Beth

        May 13, 2016 at 6:26 pm

        I made Linzer cookies for the first time last year, and wondered why I had waited so long to try them too. They are highly requested by my family, so I've made them several times since. I hope you give them a try. I'm sure you'll love them.

        Reply
    2. The Partiologist

      May 03, 2016 at 10:23 am

      I haven't made linzer cookies for such a long time I need to get busy making them again, your flowers look like the kind I could grow! They are so pretty, I love the see through petals!

      Reply
      • Beth

        May 03, 2016 at 7:32 pm

        My family loves linzer cookies so much. They love it when I make them for them. They are pretty easy to grow too! LOL!

        Reply
        • Kathy C

          April 30, 2018 at 8:55 am

          Your family STILL love these cookies! Delicious with raspberry or lemon. Yumm.

          Reply
          • Beth

            April 30, 2018 at 10:18 am

            I'm glad you love them!

            Reply
    3. Marcia Chocinsky

      May 02, 2016 at 7:28 pm

      I've always made my version with raspberry jam. What a great idea to use the lemon curd. Can't wait to try these!

      Reply
      • Beth

        May 02, 2016 at 9:45 pm

        Hi Marcia, it's nice to see a comment from you!

        I love them with raspberry jam too, but my husband thought the lemon curd cookies were amazing. Next time I'm going to try some fig jam that I have in my cupboard to see if we like those too.

        Reply

    Primary Sidebar

    Beth Jackson Klosterboer

    Welcome to Hungry Happenings!

    I'm Beth. I've been a professional chocolatier & baker for over 30 years, have written 5 cookbooks, and love creating fun food for holidays and special occasions.

    Read more about me →

    Popular

    • Mini cheesecakes collage of images with plain cheesecakes, cheesecake cups with toppings, and decorated edible flower cheesecakes.
      Mini Cheesecakes
    • Cakesicles with red and green drizzle, rainbow sprinkles, and chocolate drizzle
      How to make Cakesicles (cake pop popsicles)
    • Halloween appetizer - Jack Skellington Chicken Dip
      Halloween Appetizer - Jack Skellington Dip
    • This Halloween freak out your friends and family by serving them some Stuffed Pizza Skulls. They are really easy to make yet look so amazingly cool that no one will realize they took minutes to make.
      Stuffed Pizza Skulls
    • four sugar skulls decorated with colorful royal icing flowers, hearts, spider webs and more on a black background
      Sugar Skull Video Tutorial
    • Cake Ball Brains are sure to creep out your friends and family at Halloween but they are really tasty treats.
      Cake Ball Brains Oozing Cherry Blood - Creepy Halloween Sweets
    • chocolate rice krispie treat turkeys
      Chocolate Dipped Rice Krispie Treat Turkey Pops
    • Giant Reese's Cup on a cake stand with a slice cut and served on a small dessert plate.
      Giant Peanut Butter Cup
    • skillet dip snowman with bread puffs surrounding hot chicken dip decorated with black olives and a carrot nose
      Skillet Dip Snowman - Christmas Appetizer
    • a stack of green copycake IHOP Grinch pancakes topped with cream cheese glaze, green whipped cream, and candy hearts on a white plate are set in front of a red and white striped cup filled with grinch hot chocolate
      Copycat IHOP Grinch Pancakes Recipe

    Buy my cookbooks

    Beth Jackson Klosterboer

    Welcome to Hungry Happenings!

    I'm Beth. I've been a professional chocolatier & baker for over 30 years, have written 5 cookbooks, and love creating fun food for holidays and special occasions.

    Read more about me →

    Popular

    • Mini cheesecakes collage of images with plain cheesecakes, cheesecake cups with toppings, and decorated edible flower cheesecakes.
      Mini Cheesecakes
    • Cakesicles with red and green drizzle, rainbow sprinkles, and chocolate drizzle
      How to make Cakesicles (cake pop popsicles)
    • Halloween appetizer - Jack Skellington Chicken Dip
      Halloween Appetizer - Jack Skellington Dip
    • This Halloween freak out your friends and family by serving them some Stuffed Pizza Skulls. They are really easy to make yet look so amazingly cool that no one will realize they took minutes to make.
      Stuffed Pizza Skulls
    • four sugar skulls decorated with colorful royal icing flowers, hearts, spider webs and more on a black background
      Sugar Skull Video Tutorial
    • Cake Ball Brains are sure to creep out your friends and family at Halloween but they are really tasty treats.
      Cake Ball Brains Oozing Cherry Blood - Creepy Halloween Sweets
    • chocolate rice krispie treat turkeys
      Chocolate Dipped Rice Krispie Treat Turkey Pops
    • Giant Reese's Cup on a cake stand with a slice cut and served on a small dessert plate.
      Giant Peanut Butter Cup
    • skillet dip snowman with bread puffs surrounding hot chicken dip decorated with black olives and a carrot nose
      Skillet Dip Snowman - Christmas Appetizer
    • a stack of green copycake IHOP Grinch pancakes topped with cream cheese glaze, green whipped cream, and candy hearts on a white plate are set in front of a red and white striped cup filled with grinch hot chocolate
      Copycat IHOP Grinch Pancakes Recipe

    Buy my cookbooks

    Footer

    ↑ back to top

    use policies

    • privacy policy
    • photo-use policy
    • terms of service

    join us

    • subscribe (newsletter)
    • our online courses
    • readers' gallery

    contact

    • contact
    • about Beth
    • FAQ

    As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

    Copyright © 2023 Hungry Happenings