Heart Shaped Butter Cookies with Jam
Try this Heart Shaped Butter Cookies with Jam recipe, or contribute your own.
Try this Heart Shaped Butter Cookies with Jam recipe, or contribute your own.
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 cup unsweetened coconut (not frozen)
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter soft
- 1 cup imperial sugar confectioners powdered sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour (spoon and sweep method*)
- 1 jar red fruit jam of choice
- *using spoon fill measuring cup with flour until r
- Carbohydrate 0.0652225 g
- Cholesterol 11.6544444444444 mg
- Fat 0.250886111111111 g
- Fiber 0.000736111111111111 g
- Protein 0.150233055555556 g
- Saturated Fat 0.0902544444444444 g
- Serving Size 1 1 to 24 cookie (1g)
- Sodium 0.475555555555556 mg
- Sugar 0.0644863888888889 g
- Trans Fat 0.00997622222222225 g
- Calories 4 calories
Step-by-step
- Place coconut in a food processor or blender and grind until very fine. (Alternatively finely grated coconut can be found in health food stores).
- Mix butter until smooth and creamy. Add confectioner’s sugar and mix until well blended and no butter lumps remain.
- Add salt, vanilla extract and egg yolk and mix until combined.
- Add flour in one step and mix just until blended.
- Line a cookie sheet with plastic food wrap and press dough flat on sheet. Place in freezer or refrigerator until cold and firm, about 30 minutes or overnight.
- The dough can be a challenge to roll since it easily sticks, however rolling the dough on a lightly floured kitchen towel is helpful. The dough can also be rolled between two sheets of thick plastic (use food storage bags).
- Roll chilled dough 1/8 inch thick. If it gets too soft, refrigerate it more. Cut into hearts. Cut half of cutouts with a second cutter to obtain a heart shape within the heart.
- Place on parchment lined cookie sheets and place in oven and bake until very pale in color, about 13-15 minutes. Allow to cool.
- Place a few tablespoons of jam in microwave oven and warm until lukewarm.
- Spoon a small amount of jam on a solid heart shaped cookie and spread the jam close to edge. Top with a heart shaped cookie with its center cutout.
The Structural Core of Tender Shortbread
Unsalted butter anchors this recipe, requiring careful creaming with confectioners' sugar to incorporate air without developing excess gluten when the all-purpose flour enters the bowl. Flour must be measured using the spoon and sweep method to prevent heavy, dense cookies that break under the jam layer. Because high butter content creates a fragile, sticky matrix, chilling the dough until firm makes cutting clean shapes manageable. When rolling the dough to an eighth-inch thickness, rolling it between two sheets of thick plastic prevents tearing.
Adapting Ingredients and Managing Jam
Coconut adds a subtle textural nuance when ground very fine, though substituting almond flour at a one-to-one ratio yields a similar crumbly bite for bakers needing nut alternatives. Baking requires watching closely until the edges remain very pale, usually taking 13 to 15 minutes in the oven. Warming the red fruit jam slightly loosens its viscosity, allowing it to spread smoothly to the edges of the solid base cookie before the cutout top seals the sandwich.
