EMPTY TOMB COOKIES
“Looking for an ‘Easter theme’ cookie, I was struck by the visual of the empty tomb. This led my thoughts to Linzer Tart cookies, which are usually filled with jam. What if they were left empty? What if the only visual on the inside of the cookie was the angel’s bright light, which greeted those early visitors to the tomb on that first Easter morning? You will find these Linzer Tarts lacking, but that’s the point. They are empty, just like the tomb. Celebrate the Risen Christ! Find a fresh start in these Linzer Tart.”
1 cup Butter
½ cup Sugar
1 Egg
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
2 cups Flour
Cinnamon and Sugar mixture for coating
½ cup Powdered Sugar and 1 Tablespoon Milk for icing “glue”
Cream butter and sugar.
Mix in egg and vanilla extract.
Mix in flour.
Form dough into two disks and wrap each in plastic wrap.
Refrigerate for one hour.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Roll dough on a floured surface to a thickness of approximately 1/8th inch.
Using a 3” diameter round cookie cutter, cut out 15 circles of dough.
Cut out another 15 circles of dough and on these 15 cut out an interior circle 1” in diameter. These disks will look like “zeroes.”
Place the cutout dough onto parchment paper lined baking sheets.
Sprinkle the “zeroes” with cinnamon and sugar.
Bake for 10 minutes or until the edges begin to brown.
Once completely cool, place three drops of icing “glue” on opposite edges of each “non-zero” dough circles.
Place a corresponding “zero” dough circle onto each “non-zero” dough circle, with the cinnamon and sugar side facing out.
Makes 15 cookies.
Revised Source: “Linzer Tarts” on www.food.com.