Melt In Mouth Jam Cookies

Melt In Mouth Jam Cookies

Ingredients
500g cold butter or room temperature Vegetable baking margarine suitable for cookies and puff pastry (Sélections Du Chef)
1 tsp of vanilla essence
1 tsp of almond essence
1/2 cup icing sugar
2 cups white plain flour
Strawberry and fig jam (use 100% natural fruit)

Method

Cut the butter into pieces to make it easier to use. If you are using margarine, use only pure vegetable and for cookies and puff pastry only.

Add the essences, icing sugar and flour.

Use a hand beaters or stand beaters or simply your hands to mix until crumbly.

Now with your hands, bring the mixture together, knead slightly to form a dough. Of you're using margarine then you may need to knead it for a bit longer as baking margarine is mostly solid but will work well.
Make about 70 little balls out of the dough. Size 1".

Line a cookie tray with non stick baking paper. Arrange the cookies leaving 1 cm distance between each.

Use a 1/2 tsp to press into the cookie dough to make a dent/concurve in the centre or simply use your finger.

Use the stick of a spoon or fork to fill the cookies with jam without getting messy.

Preheat oven 180 ℃ for 10 minutes and bake for 15 minutes or until golden in color.