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Simple & Sweet Jam Cookies (Perfect for Christmas!)

Course cookies, Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 8

Ingredients

  • For cookies:
  • 2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup maple syrup
  • 1/2 cup unsalted softened butter
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
  • A pinch of salt
  • For the spread:
  • 1/4 cup strawberry jam
  • 1/4 cup apricot jam
  • 1/2 cup unsalted cold butter
  • 1/4 cup powder sugar
  • a drop of edible green color
  • For the butter icing:
  • Mix cold butter and icing sugar nicely in a smooth paste. Add a drop of green color and mix them. Your butter icing is ready.

Instructions

  • *Start preheating your oven at 160 degrees Celsius before you start this recipe
  • Whip the butter with an egg beater until it becomes very creamy. Once you get the right texture, add maple syrup, salt & vanilla essence.
  • Once all the ingredients blend nicely, add flour & continue mixing. Now, using your hands knead the mixture until it becomes a nice dough.
  • Now put your dough in between of two parchment papers as it is & using a rolling pin, roll it out until it becomes flat. The thickness of your dough should be around 1/4 inch so make sure you don't roll it way to much.
  • Now we have our cookie dough ready! Use a cookie cutter to make circle cookies only!
  • Okie, now this part is a little complicated too explain but we will try our best! Our goal is to make sandwhich-like cookies, right? So we will set aside half of the cookie shapes & use the other half to make some shapes inside them so the jam will be visible, something like this:
  • So set aside half of the circles & make your desired shapes inside the other half.
  • Now line your baking tray with parchment paper & carefully transfer your cookies onto it.
  • Now put your cookies into the oven for 15 minutes at 160 degrees celcius. Once they bake take em' out of your oven and let them cool down.
  • Now on the plain, circle cookies spread one of the jams listed above in the "spread" section in the ingredients.
  • Place your shape-cut cookies on top of the plain, jam ones to make sandwich-like cookies.
  • Dust your cookies with some icing sugar & tada! Your cookies are ready to be eaten (and relished, hopefully!)