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Shortbread and Jam Sandwiches

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The perfect sandwich! Any jam would work as long as it is thick enough not to run.

Ingredients

  • 1-½ cup Butter, Softened
  • 2 cups All-purpose Flour
  • 1 cup Cornstarch
  • 1 cup Icing Sugar
  • 1 dash Kosher Salt
  • ⅔ cups Jam (apricot Or Cherry)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 300º with the rack in the center.

Beat the butter. Sift in the flour, cornstarch, icing sugar and salt. Mix until a soft smooth dough forms, just until combined.

Roll half the dough on a lightly floured surface or between two pieces of parchment or wax paper. Roll out to just over 1/8 inch. Cut out into 2-inch circles or whatever desired shape. Place on an ungreased or parchment-lined baking sheet. Repeat with remaining half of the dough.

Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes, rotating the sheets halfway through. You do not want these to brown! Cool ten minutes on the sheet then move to a wire rack to cool completely.

Spread jam on one cookie and sandwich another on top.

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city baked on 2.22.2012

Hey ambj73. There are plenty of things that can make a recipe go awry, trust me it happens to me daily! Perhaps one of the dry ingredients was to densely packed down and that threw the quantities off. Maybe the butter needs to be left to soften a bit more next time. Hopefully that helps and it works out!

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ambj73 on 12.16.2011

Oh no, I must have messed up because mine didn’t turn out at all. ={ I’m assuming it is me, since there were so many positive reviews and comments. I rechecked all my quantities, no problem there. I used a hand mixer, maybe that wasn’t a good idea? The dough was too crumbly and never really formed. I finally was able to roll out between sheets of wax paper (didn’t have parchment paper), but then the cookies themselves sometimes broke while trying to spread the jam and just seemed dry when eating too. I was so excited too! This is my first foray into shortbread…maybe I should keep trying?

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city baked on 3.10.2011

Holy smokes, thanks everyone!

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inthekitchenwithdinah on 1.23.2011

I made these yesterday. They are the most delicious, melt-in-your mouth shortbread I have ever made. I used triple berry jam in the middle. I used a cute scalloped 2″ square cutter.

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cookbookbites on 1.23.2011

These cookies look like they’d make lovely Valentine’s Day treats!

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kmschwarz on 2.18.2011

These were fantastic! I used raspberry jam and would definitely do that again. I made them for a shower and one guest even thought that they were from a bakery. Great recipe!

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deborahb45231 on 1.22.2011

These are SO GOOD! I only had round cookie cutters too, but that didn’t matter. I love shortbread more than anything. I filled them with black raspberry jam, our family’s favorite. This was a very easy recipe, got lots of cookies out of it. I’ve eaten so many already!

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staceyt on 1.22.2011

These are delicious! I used cookie cutters that were 2″ at the biggest point and I got 90 cookies, so 45 sandwiches! And I had more dough left but was sick of rolling and cutting…definitely could have gotten 10 more for a total of 50 sandwiches. Easy recipe, dough wasn’t sticky at all and they are yummy!

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