Chocolate Linzer Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups flour
1 tablespoon cocoa, sifted
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup almonds, ground
1/2 cup butter, cut into pieces
1 egg
1/2 cup raspberry jam
confectioners' sugar, for dusting cookie tops

Preparation

In a medium bowl combine flour, cocoa, cinnamon, sugar and almonds.
Toss lightly with a fork, add butter pieces.
Gather into a ball.
Wrap securely in plastic wrap and chill 4 to 5 hours.
Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F.
On lightly floured surface roll out half of dough.
Cut put rounds using a 3-inch round biscuit cutter.
With the remaining half of dough cut out rounds with the same cutter, but also cut a smaller circle(about3/4-inch) in the center, using a bottle cap.
Place both batches on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
Remove from cookie sheet and cool completely.
Spread plain cookies with jam and cover with a cookie with a whole in the center.
Sprinkle tops with confectioners' sugar.