Linzer Heart Cookie SVG

About this design

Old-world bakeries have always loved a fluted edge. Here sixteen soft lobes form the outline of a golden Linzer-style cookie, and a red jam heart sits right in the middle, where the window in the top layer would be. Twelve cream dots circle the heart like a string of tiny pearls.

There is no flood of icing to hide the dough, so the design feels more refined than the iced shapes in this collection. It would look at home on a wedding-style dessert table as easily as on a Christmas plate.

Recipe binder

Few designs fit a kitchen binder as naturally as this one. The round format suits a tab or a cover, and it stays crisp when small.

• Recipe cards with the cookie in one corner.
• Divider tabs for the holiday section.
• A binder cover with the cookie centered above the family name.
• Spice jar labels for vanilla sugar and cookie spices.
• Tins and treat boxes sealed with a round sticker.

Pieces and weeding

Count on 14 pieces and 13 cut-outs, made up of the scalloped cookie, the heart and the dots. The heart and every dot are islands inside the cookie, so they need help staying put. Reach for transfer tape with vinyl, or glue them to a backing card when working in cardstock. It passes our cut checks from about 1.5 inches wide.

What sits where

• Base and lines in bittersweet dark cocoa: a filled layer beneath it all, visible as the thin edge and the lines around the heart and dots
• Cookie in shortbread tan: the scalloped round
• Cream icing in pearly cream: the twelve dots
• Red icing in jam red: the heart

Size guide

Under 1.5 inches the dots are too small for a clean blade pass, so switch to Print Then Cut and let your printer do the detail.

Gluing the dots evenly

1. Prepare dark brown stock for the foundation and tan card for the scalloped cookie.
2. Set the heart in place first, since it anchors everything.
3. Place the dots at twelve, three, six and nine o’clock.
4. Fill in the remaining eight dots between those four marks.

A dab of glue on a toothpick is plenty for each dot.

Palette changes

• Raspberry heart with white dots on pale dough
• Apricot heart with cream dots for a golden look
• Deep chocolate cookie with a cream heart and gold dots

For help trying any of these, read the page on editing colors in an SVG.

Pairs well with

The Jam Thumbprint Cookie makes a matched pair of jam cookies, and the Holly Heart Sugar Cookie brings a second heart to the table. Our gift tag collection has shapes for finishing a tin of them.