These cookies are best with a filling of homemade raspberry jam but you can use whatever fruit jam you have. You can also make these with a hazelnut filling like Nutella.
- 1 cup butter
- 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 3 tbsps milk
- 2 tsps real vanilla extract
- 2-3/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsps cream of tartar
- 1 tbsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup raspberry preserves
- icing sugar (optional)
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Beat in egg yolk, milk, and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, sift together flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt.
- Gradually add dry ingredients to butter mixture, mixing after each addition.
- Shape cookie dough into a round.
- Place dough in bowl and cover with plastic wrap.
- Chill cookie dough in fridge one hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cut dough in half.
- Flour a rolling pin.
- Roll out half the dough on lightly floured parchment paper to 1/8" thick.
- Cut dough into rounds with a 2" round cookie cutter.
- Place rounds on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Spoon 1/2 tsp raspberry preserves in the center of each round.
- Roll out the remaining half of the dough to 1/8" thick.
- Cut dough into rounds with the same cookie cutter.
- This time, cut a small hole in the center of each round.
- You can use any small round object to do this: a plastic water bottle cap, or the screw-on cap to a pastry bag.
- Top each jam-topped round with a cut-out round.
- Pinch to seal the edges.
- Bake in preheated 350 degree F oven 10-12 minutes.
- Place the parchment paper underneath a cooling rack.
- Remove baked cookies from oven.
- Carefully move cookies from the hot cookie sheet to the cooling rack.
- When cookies are cool, dust with icing sugar. Store in a paper lined cookie tin with a tight lid.
Makes about 3-1/2 dozen cookies.
