Knead together flour, butter, sugar, hazelnuts, and cinnamon to form pâte brisée dough.
Let rest for 30 minutes.
Roll out to about 3mm thick and cut out circles with a cookie cutter.
Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for about 10 minutes.
Brush half of the cookies with apricot marmalade and place a plain one on top of each.
Place on a cooling rack and glaze with liquid chocolate glaze.
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Cakes or Taler?
The above recipe is a particularly delicious variation of a well-known sweet that was one of the favorites of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Sissi. We are talking about the famous Ischler Cakes which are popular in Bad Ischl to this day. They are made with pâte brisée, but instead of apricot marmalade, they are filled with buttercream and dipped in chocolate. Before the chocolate hardens, “OriginalIschler Cakes” are decorated with a blanched, dipped almond.