Shortbread Cookies with Homemade Blueberry Jam
Buttery, melt-in-your-mouth Shortbread Cookies with Homemade Blueberry Jam. An easy, delicious treat for afternoon tea, holidays, or sharing.
- Prep Time: 20 min
- Cook Time: 8-10 min
- Total Time: 30 min
- Yield: large batch
- Category: desserts
- Method: oven baked
Ingredients
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- 1 1/4 cup of white sugar
- 4 cups of flour
- 250 g (1/2 lb) of soft butter
- 2 eggs
- 2 Tsp cream of tarter
- 1 Tsp bicarb of soda
- 1 Tsp of vanilla essence
Instructions
- Preheat oven 200 Deg. C (fairly hot oven) (392 deg. F)
- Mix butter and sugar, beat in eggs and vanilla extract.
- Add all the dry ingredients (flour, cream of tarter, bicarb of soda ) To make a soft dough.
- Add your soft dough into a disposable pastry bag with a large star tip. Pipe the cookies to about 2 inches in diameter.
- Place the star shaped cookies on your baking sheets, and flatten the middle a little with your thumb to about half way in the cookie, (just enough to place some jam) add the blueberry jam.
- Then bake in the fairly hot oven until, cookies are done when the bottoms are lightly golden and the tops look set but still pale.
- Let them rest on the tray for 2–3 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
- This makes a large quantity of biscuits.
- Store in an airtight container.
Notes
Elevating Your shortbread cookies toppings
- Dust with powdered sugar
- Drizzle with melted chocolate (white or chocolate)
- Dab various flavors of jam or jelly
- Add a single favorite nut
- Add crushed pistachios or other nuts your favor