These Shamrock Linzer Tarts are a tasty cookie! A crispy cookie with a sweet-tart lime curd filling.
Top of the mornin' to you with these buttery and delicate shortbread cookies with homemade creamy lime curd! Yes, it really is lime and since I don't live in a Dr. Suess world, I was unable to get some green eggs... lol.
I had to make due with yellow yolks! Trust me though, one bite and you will definitely taste the tangy lime flavor!
I probably should be making something green to celebrate St. Patrick's Day but I think the shamrock shape and lime curd make it festive. Do you agree? Plus these cookies are always a big hit.
So light and kind of melt in your mouth. This is my favorite shortbread cookie recipe as the dough is easy to work with and doesn't stick.
Is St. Patrick's Day a day you celebrate? Since I grew up in an Italian household, we never had corn beef and cabbage or Irish soda bread. Probably the most fun thing we did with our kids was to turn the milk green!
I do like my green desserts too and I have another one up my sleeve to share!
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Shamrock Linzer Cookies
A light, crispy cookie with a lime curd filling
Ingredients
Shortbread
- 3 sticks of soft unsalted butter
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ confectioners sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 ½ cups flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tbl poppy seeds
Lime Curd
- 1 large egg
- 6 large egg yolks
- ½ cup sugar
- Zest from 2 limes (finely grated)
- ½ cup fresh lime juice
- pinch salt
- 1 stick unsalted butter cut into cubes
Instructions
- Cookies - mix the butter, sugar, confectioners sugar, and vanilla on medium speed until light and fluffy. Reduce to low speed and slowly add the flour and salt. When mixed, add the poppy seeds and continue mixing for 1 minute.
- Remove the dough and divide it in two. Place one half between two sheets of parchment paper and roll until ¼″ thick. Using a cookie cutter to cut out the bottoms (removing unused dough, re-rolling and continue to make more bottoms until first half of dough is used up).
- Place all bottoms on parchment paper on a cookie sheet and freeze for an hour. Do the same thing with the other half of the dough and use a small shape cookie cutter to cut out centers.
- To bake preheat the oven to 325 and bake the cookies about 10-12 minutes until light brown. Remove and cool on a wire rack and cool completely. With the top cookie, dust with confectioners sugar.
- Curd - use a double boiler and bring water to simmer in pan making sure it won’t touch the bottom of the top part.
- Add in the top part all the ingredients minus the butter. Set it over the simmering water and whisk the mixture constantly until it reaches 170 degrees, remove from stove and add butter and stir until melted.
- Strain the mixture through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl.
- Place this bowl inside another bowl that is filled with ice water.
- Let the mixture stand at room temperature until it is cooled and thickened (this part can be done a day ahead and kept refrigerated until needed)
- To assemble – place about one teaspoon of curd on bottom and place top and press lightly.
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Marcie FlavortheMoments says
These cookies are so fun, and I could eat that lime curd alone with a spoon! Of course, it would be even better in between those delicious cookies. Pinned!
Nutmeg Nanny says
These cookies are delicious looking! Love that tangy lime curd filling.
Patricia Conte says
This is my first time visiting your site - it's fab! Love these festive cookies and what a nice twist to see lime curd filling - bet it tastes amazing!
Joan Defino says
Deb, These Linzer Tarts look wonderful ... love the idea of lime curd. Pinned! Joan-My Cookie Clinic
Nicole @ OrWhateverYouDo says
Adorable!!! I have never made linzers before. I think I need to!
cooking with curls says
Yum!! Those cookies look so delicious, Deb. There is a lot of animosity between British and Irish, so my {British} mom would never let us celebrate St. Patrick's Day...even thought my dad is Irish, lol. I have more than made up for it since moving out!!
Heather Schmitt-Gonzalez says
These are beautiful! I love the speckles of the poppy seeds throughout the shortbread (which just so happens to be mine and my oldest's favorite kind of cookie) - plus, lime curd...sigh... Yeah, I need these. I am pretty sure that mine would not be as pretty as yours, though - I'd have fingerprints in my powdered sugar for sure.
Melanie says
I adore lime curd and these cookies sound delicious - Pinned!
Cate @ Chez CateyLou says
These cookies are so cute, and they sound delicious! What a great recipe for St. Patrick's Day!
Beth Baumgartner says
These make me so happy! I love that they are still celebrating St. Patrick's Day without having to be green!
Kacey Joanette says
Such an easy recipe and I do not know why I never thought of replacing lemons in lemon curd to make lime curd... Nonetheless, I know now!
Ashley . The Recipe Rebel says
These are just so super cute! Pinned 🙂
Joanie Zisk says
What pretty cookies! I love the twist using lime curd. Pinned!
Amy Stafford says
These are gorgeous, I love lemon curd.
Jamie Sherman says
My mouth is watering just thinking about them! Yum!
Lizzy T says
Such pretty cookies!!
Cathy Trochelman says
I'm absolutely in love with these cookies! They're so special!!!
Ashlyn Edwards says
Deb, these are so lovely! That lime curd sounds wonderful. 🙂
Laura O says
These look so perfect! Lime curd sounds so refreshing!