In case you were wondering...
...this is how you make a delicious linzer "cake." I put it into quotes because you cut them into bars and are rather less like a cake and more like a bar. First: Make sure you have all your ingredients (very important I have come to find after much trial and error) 3cups flour 1 cup sugar 3tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1 cup butter 2 eggs 1tsp vanilla lemon rind 2 jars(standard size) apricot perserves 1/2 cupish of crushed walnuts mixed with sugar Second:Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Third: Mix- Sugar, flour, baking soda, baking powder and slightly softened butter. Fourth: Mix- eggs, vanilla and lemon rind Fifth: Add egg mixture to previous butter mixture until it becomes a dough-like consistancy Sixth: Take half of the dough and set it aside. Take the other half and cover your work space surface with flour and roll it out so that it will cover the bottom of a greased cookie sheet. (Note: the dough is very fragile and will break easily, don't worry, just patch it...
