Recipe: Yummy Raspberry Jam filled Butter Cookies

Raspberry Jam filled Butter Cookies. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter, sugar, and salt until combined. Add in egg yolks and vanilla beat to combine. Raspberry Butter Cookies are sweet and simple, and perfect for gifting.

They are just so easy to throw together and bake up. The rich, buttery cookies are filled with seedless raspberry jam, but you can substitute your favorite flavor if you prefer. One note about substitutions for the filling. You can cook Raspberry Jam filled Butter Cookies using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Raspberry Jam filled Butter Cookies

1. It's 10 tablespoons of Butter, softened.
2. Prepare 1/2 cup of Granulated Sugar.
3. You need 1 of Egg.
4. You need 1/2 teaspoon of Pure Vanilla Extract.
5. You need 1 1/2 cups of All-Purpose Flour.
6. You need 1/2 teaspoon of Baking Powder.
7. You need 1/4 cup of Seedless Raspberry Jam.

It works best if you use a smooth puree, so I'd opt for a jelly, seedless jam or lemon curd. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead to bring the dough together. Mix cookie dough. *I used my favorite Butter Cookie Recipe, or you could use Bridget's Sugar Cookie or even buy Pillsbury refrigerated cookie dough! Remove baking sheets from oven and carefully make a small crater in the middle of each cookie using a teaspoon-size measuring spoon.

Raspberry Jam filled Butter Cookies step by step

1. Cream the softened butter with the sugar..
2. Beat in the egg and vanilla extract..
3. Sift the all-purpose flour and baking powder, and combine it with the butter mixture..
4. Chill the dough for at least 30 minutes. Roll into one inch balls and flatten on a greased baking sheet..
5. Make a dent in the center and fill it with 1 teaspoon of raspberry jam..
6. Bake in a preheated oven at 175 degrees Celsius for 12-14 minutes..

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. The the middle of the cookies are practically caved in as a result of pressing the thumbprint in the center of the cookie dough. This is a classic thumbprint cookie recipe, using raspberry jam as the filling. The cookies are sweet, buttery and crumbly.