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Shortbread Cookies with Jam

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour 10.5 oz
  • ½ cup sugar 4 oz
  • Smidge of Vanilla ½ tsp? or leave out
  • ½ cup + 2 Tbsp Butter 5 oz or 1.25 sticks
  • Jam your choice of flavor—we use Raspberry!

Instructions

  • Combine all ingredients with mixer or food processor. If dough is dry and crumbly, knead with hands until mixed completely.
  • Refrigerate until cool/firm—but be careful because it will become as hard as a rock when left too long! (will soften when worked over)
  • Roll out dough to about ¼ inch thickness and cut with cookie cutters. If you want your jam to peek through, use a smaller cookie cutter to cut the middle of the cookies. I use the circle opening of a frosting tip for my middle hole!
  • Place on a buttered/sprayed baking sheet. The cookies won’t expand much in the oven
  • Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes. Watch these puppies as they brown quickly!

Assembly:

  • Heat jam in saucepan until thinned and easily spreadable
  • Spoon jam onto bottom cookie (without the hole) and sandwich with the top cookie (with the hole)
  • Dust cookies lightly with powdered sugar (also pretty with raw sugar granules)

Notes

All ingredients were provided in ounces so the conversion is from my own experimenting