Jam Sweethearts Cookie Recipe

Good evening! 

Tonight I decided to make some more cookies for the Seahawks game day tomorrow. These ones do take quite a bit of time and are hands on, so if you do make them, make sure you have a good chunk of time! This recipe comes from the "Mom and Me" cookbook by Annabel Karmel. 

For the actual dough, you will need: 

2 1/2 cups of flour

3/4 cup of superfine sugar (I used normal granulated sugar, I don't think it makes a difference)

2 sticks/8 oz soft butter, diced

1 large egg yolk (if you don't know how to do this, there are youtube videos)

2 tsp vanilla extract 

1/2 tsp salt 

First, beat the butter and the sugar in a bowl until it's creamy. Add your egg yolk and vanilla extract until you have a smooth consistency. Add the flour and salt and beat until the dough is smooth again. 

Your dough should look something like this.

Next, scoop your dough out onto a square of saran wrap and form it into a ball. The recipe says to refrigerate it for 30 minutes, but I would suggest maybe 45 because it warms back fairly quickly and makes using a rolling pin difficult. 

Refrigerated dough 😎

Once you've taken your dough out of the fridge, preheat your oven to 350F and get your rolling pin out. On a lightly floured cutting board, roll the dough out until it's about 1/4" thick. My dough did NOT work with the rolling pin so I used my hands, which works just fine if you don't have one! 

To cut your cookies out, you're going to need one 2 1/2" cookie cutter and one teeny little heart cookie cutter (the tiny heart is optional).  Once you've got them all cut out, place them on a greased cookie sheet. 

Circle cookies

Heart cookies

You're only going to put hearts on HALF of your dough circles and these will go on the top of the cookie sandwich. I was able to make 3 dozen total circles, which gave me 18 cookie sandwiches. The recipe says to bake them for 12 minutes, but check them after 10 minutes just in case. 

Baked!

While they're baking, you're going to want to make the frosting that goes on the bottom cookie in the sandwich. For this, you'll need:

4 tbsp softened butter

1 cup powdered sugar

A few drops of vanilla extract

1 tsp water 

Make the frosting by beating your butter in a mixer and gradually adding the powdered sugar. Then add your vanilla extract. Check the consistency at this point before you add the water because I added too much and had to go back and fix it. 

Wait until your cookies are completely cooled before you put the frosting on or else it will melt! Then add a small spoonful of whatever jam/jelly you want (I used strawberry) and make your cookie sandwich. In the end, you'll be left with something like this: 

For a little something extra you can dust powdered sugar across the top. Enjoy!

Natalie