Linzer Cookies with Egg Liqueur

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 ½ cup Cake Flour
• 1 cup Powdered Sugar
• 5.3 oz Cold unsalted butter
• 1 Egg yolk
• ¾ cup Egg liqueur
• 7 oz White couverture

Instructions

• 1 Place 7 oz White couverture in a mixing bowl or saucepan.
• 2 Heat ¾ cup Egg liqueur in a small saucepan (do not boil!)
• 3 Pour the hot egg liqueur (advocaat) over the couverture.
• 4 Let the mixture steep for 2 minutes and then whisk until smooth. Cover the bowl
  with cling film and chill in the fridge for about 8 hours.
• 5 Rub 1 ½ cup Cake Flour, 1 cup Powdered Sugar, and 5.3 oz Cold unsalted butter
  together with your fingertips until you get a crumbly mass (about 10 minutes).
• 6 Add 1 Egg yolk and knead the whole mass with the kitchen machine into a smooth
  dough (about 3 minutes).
• 7 Wrap the unbaked dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 1 hour. Preheat
  the oven to 356 °F / 180 °C and cover two baking sheets with baking paper.
• 8 Roll out the dough on a floured work surface (about 0.12 inch in thickness) and
  cut out cookies. Make sure that you have the same number of solid cookies
  (without a hole) as cookies with holes.
• 9 Place the cut-out cookies on the baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Knead
  the excess dough that you have left again, roll it out, and make more cookies
  until there is no more dough left.
• 10 Bake the cookie-filled baking sheets one at a time in the oven on the center
  rack until golden brown (about ten minutes). After baking, remove the baked
  cookies from the baking sheet and let them cool. 
• 11 Place the cookie bottoms on a sheet of baking paper.
• 12 Take the well-chilled egg liqueur ganache from the fridge and whip it birefly
  until it becomes spreadable! Important: Whip only briefly! If it is whipped too
  long with the mixer, it will flocculate!
• 13 Fill the cream into a piping bag and pipe small dots onto the cookie bases.
  Place the upper part of the cookie on top and press down lightly.
• 14 Sprinkle the cookie sandwiches with powdered sugar and place them in a storage
  container in a cool place.

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