Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Strawberry Shortbread Cookies

Ingredients:
3/4 cup room temperature butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
scant 2 cups flour
Strawberry Jam

Preheat oven to 350.

Cream sugar, butter and vanilla. Blend in flour. Roll out onto a floured board to 1/2 inch thickness.

Using a shot glass or something similar, flour and cut out circles and arrange on ungreased cookie sheet. Dust excess flour off remaining dough, kneed and roll out again. Continue to do so until the vast majority of the dough is used.

Turn the shot glass over and flour the bottom (if the shot glass does not have a smaller bottom, use something else that is circular and will leave 1/8 to 1/4 inch border on cookie). Press into the center of each cookie to form a flat bowl. Fill each cookie bowl with just enough strawberry jam to fully coat the inner bowl.

Bake about 15 minutes, or until dough is soft-set. Place on cooling wrack.

Note: This is a recipe I dreamed up that turned out quite well! Warning: The first one you eat will just be "good" but then you'll start to crave them! They go great with tea or lemonade!

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