Recipe: Yummy Jam Stuffed Cookies

Jam Stuffed Cookies. In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, white sugar and egg yolks. Mix in flour a little bit at a time until a soft dough forms. Add the confectioners' sugar, lemon zest, and vanilla and beat for another minute on medium speed until smooth. Jam- and nut-filled cookies are a traditional Christmas treat in Abruzzo and other parts of Italy. In our house, these cookies took the form of my mother's calcionelli ~ fried half-moon pillows of sweet dough filled with ground nuts and honey and flavored with citrus zest (you'll find the recipe in The Glorious Pasta of Italy).

She fried them on Christmas morning and we ate them, still warm. Eggless Jam-filled Thumbprint Cookies are buttery melt-in-your-mouth cookies, filled in the center with your favorite jam, jelly or preserve. These Eggless Jam-filled thumbprint cookies make a delicious combination during tea time with Ginger Tea or Coffee. You can cook Jam Stuffed Cookies using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Jam Stuffed Cookies

1. Prepare 650 g of Flour.
2. You need 200 g of Sugar.
3. Prepare 400 g of Butter.
4. It's 2 TBSP of Pure Vanilla Extract.
5. You need 2 Teaspoons of Lemon zest.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
7. Prepare 2 of egg yolks.
8. Prepare 1/2 cup of milk.
9. You need of Strawberry jam for the fillings.

If you like this recipe, explore more cookie recipes which you might find interesting Whole Wheat, Oatmeal and Amaranth Fruitcake Cookie. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. In another bowl, beat butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, about. Cover with the remaining rounds, crimping the edges to seal well.

Jam Stuffed Cookies step by step

1. Cream sugar and butter lightly then add flavour, flour sifted with salt by portion, then egg then flour (3batches) then milk and Mould. Freeze for 4-8hour..
2. Take off light flour board. Roll with pin and cut with cutter. Indent the centre and Freeze for 10 mins..
3. And bake for 12-15@180c.
4. Note inbetween the removal time. Mix up your Strawberry jam for the fillings put in a piping bag take out baking pan, fill up the indentations and bake for 1minute..
5. Thank you..

Make a small slit in the top of each cookie. Roll into one-inch balls and place one inch apart on un-greased cookie sheet; With the end of a wooden spoon make a indention in the ball and fill with jam; I have used Variety of jams and jellies Raspberry being the best! but Apricot is yummmie too, along with apple, blackberry, blueberry the possibilities are endless. Roll stuffed cookie dough ball in sugar and place on baking sheet. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; stir into the creamed mixture.