Buttery Jam Cookies
Recipe: #22431
January 09, 2016
"Adapted from the Joy the Baker web site. Any thick jam or preserves can be used in place of the cherry preserves."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (27.1 g)
- Calories 101.1
- Total Fat - 4.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.5 g
- Cholesterol - 19 mg
- Sodium - 44.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 14.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.3 g
- Sugars - 6.6 g
- Protein - 1.5 g
- Calcium - 19.9 mg
- Iron - 0.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 375°.
Step 2
Whisk dry ingredients together and set aside.
Step 3
Beat butter until light and fluffy.
Step 4
Add sugar and beat for 1 minute.
Step 5
Add egg and beat for 2 minutes more. The mixture will be satiny.
Step 6
Add milk and vanilla and beat just to combine. Don't worry if the mixture looks curdled.
Step 7
With mixer at low speed, add jam and beat 1 minute.
Step 8
Still at low speed, beat in dry ingredients just until combined. Dough will be very thick.
Step 9
Drop rounded teaspoons of dough into the sugar.
Step 10
Toss to coat and place 1" apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
Step 11
Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until cookies are firm and lightly browned around the edges.
Step 12
Cool on cookie sheets for 1 minute, then transfer to racks.
Tips
No special items needed.