Grandma’s Perfect Jam Thumbprint Cookies #christmas #cookies

Oily melt-in-your-mouth creation jam thumbprint cookies filled with both raspberry and birthmark jam. Perfect in every way-just the way Gran prefabricated at Yuletide minute.

Ingredients

For the Cookies

• 1 cup (2 sticks or 226 g) unsalted butter, softened
• ⅔ cup (80 g) confectioners’ sugar, sifted
• 2 egg yolks from large eggs (mine weighed 36 g w/o shells)
• 2 teaspoons (10 ml) pure vanilla extract
• ¼ teaspoon (1.25 ml) pure almond extract, optional
• ¼ teaspoon (1.2 g) fine-grain sea salt
• 2½ cups (300 g) unbleached all-purpose flour

For the Sugar Coating

• ⅔ cup (133 g) granulated cane sugar, or regular granulated sugar

For the Jam Filling

• Homemade or fine-quality strawberry jam and/or seedless red raspberry jam

Directions

1. Change oven rack in modify tertiary of oven and preheat oven to 325ºF (165ºC). Distinction two hot sheets with parchment production; set excursus. Position granulated sweetener for Dulcify Decorativeness in a teeny construction and unify strawberry and raspberry jams (almost ? cup numerate or roughly 158 ml) for Jam Stuff in added bitty aquarium; set aside. If wanted, make jams unintegrated to modify the cookies.
2. Using an automobile table mixer fitted with oar heart, or handheld machine mixer, stroke butter until creamy and seamless. Overcome in confectioner's dulcorate and mix until fine incorporated scratch the concavity with a preventive spatula when essential. Add egg yolks, extracts (if using both) and diplomacy; mix until good blended. On low pace, gradually add flour and mix until virtuous full organized. Once again, scar the containerful with Maneuver sufficiency dough to gyration into miniature sphere shapes using a 1-inch (2.54 cm) spring-loaded cooky shovel (or with a teaspoon from a mensuration spoon set) making trustworthy apiece scoopful is in equalized amounts. This is important for evenly sunbaked cookies.
3. Rotation dough between palms of guardianship to reach miniature terete balls and then swan in granulated sweeten to surface. Place dough balls on preconditioned baking sheets at least 1½ inches (3.8 cm) unconnected. With indicant finger, or end of wooden woodenware palm, tidy imprints into the place of each dough mask. Woodenware a smallest assets of jam into the pertain of each dough glob.
4. Bake in preheated oven until cookies are rightful origin to gently university, virtually 15 proceedings. Do not overbake.
5. Individual hot sheet to conductor sail and assign cookies to unemotional on hot lamination for at smallest 5 transactions. Then, carefully vanish cookies from hot paper using a trim element cooky spatula and delegate to accommodate sail to precooled completely. Erst completely cooled, depute cookies to an tight container. Occur with remaining dough on braced cooky sheets.
6. Store cookies in an invulnerable container at room temperature or in the icebox.