A simple sugar cookie dough. rolled and cut into trees and glued together with sweet raspberry jam.
Perfect for cookie swaps, hostess gifts, and holiday entertaining 
1 cup sugar
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon salt
1 large egg
3 cups all-purpose flour
¼ cup raspberry jam
1 teaspoon confectioner’s sugar
- Cream the butter, sugar, baking powder, vanilla, and salt.
- Add the egg to blend.
- Add the flour and mix until well combined.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for at least one hour.
- Roll out the cookie dough on a floured counter to a thickness of 1/16 of an inch
- Stamp out 56 cookies using a Christmas tree cookie cutter that measures about 2 ½ inches wide by 3 ½ inches high.
- Place the cookies on parchment lined sheet pans.
- Using the bottom of a drinking straw that has a ¼ inch opening, make holes on half (28) of the Christmas trees.
- There should be about 9 or 10 holes on each cookie.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
- Cool completely.
- Spread a thin layer of raspberry jam onto the bottom (flat side) of one of the cookies without the holes
- Top it with one of the cookies with holes, flat sides together.
- Press the cookies together gently.
- Repeat with the remaining cookies.
- Dust with confectioner's sugar.
Recipe: Queen of my Kitchen
.png)
No comments:
Post a Comment