Austrian Jam Cookies recipe

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Ingredients

½ cup butter
½ cup white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg yolk
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
⅔ cup chopped almonds
1 cup raspberry jam

Nutrition Info

87.8 calories
carbohydrate: 13.3 g
cholesterol: 12.5 mg
fat: 3.6 g
fiber: 0.3 g
protein: 1 g
saturatedFat: 1.7 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 18.5 mg
sugar: 8.5 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Add the vanilla and egg yolk, mix until fluffy. Stir in the flour, and refrigerate dough for 2 hours.

  2. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.

  3. Measure out the dough by teaspoonfuls, and roll into balls. Dip the balls into chopped almonds and set on the prepared cookie sheet 1 inch apart. With a finger, make an indention in each cookie, fill the indention up with jam using a teaspoon or a pastry bag. Bake in the preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, cookies should be golden brown. Remove from pan after baking to cool on a wire rack.

Recipe Yield

3 dozen

Recipe Note

This recipe belonged to my mother. It is one the many cookies from her Christmas cookie collection.

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