Imagine a neatly set table for tea (or coffee?): Napkins, a steaming drink in cups with a delicious aroma, and, of course, cookies in a beautiful vase. Nice and appetizing, right? Delicious homemade cookies with jam and crumbs: shortbread, fragile, with an incomparable aroma. Yummy!
And the dialogue at the table is appropriate:
- Did you bake cookies yourself?
- Yes.
- And your jam?
- Of course, quince. And here’s another cookie, try that pinkish, very soft.
- Thank you, I tried, yummy. So I love homemade cookies with jam, give your recipe?
A cozy picture, isn't it? I want to return to such a house again.
What is the dough
There are many recipes for homemade cookies with jam. This is, first of all, a dish of shortcrust pastry, which perfectly combines any jam and shtreisel (greasy crumb topping). Then comes yeast and puff, on kefir, sour cream, milk with baking powder, from oatmeal, rice and a lot of different and tasty things.
And as for the additives, everything is added: spices, nuts, chocolate (Americans love the pieces of chocolate in the dough), raisins and such a familiar and native jam!
Shortbread dough for cookies
A large amount of fat is added to the shortcrust pastry. These fats are butter or margarine. Regular vegetable oil makes the food tough and sugary. The following description can be attached to homemade shortbread recipes with jam: soft, sweet, with sour cream, with cottage cheese, with cheese, yeast. There is also shortcrust pastry with potatoes and lard, but this is already unsweetened, for an amateur, as they say. Here are some of the options:
Soft dough made from 300 g flour (two and a half cups), 250 g butter, 2 egg yolks and 75 g sugar.
Sweet dough: 300 g flour, 200 g butter, 1 egg, 100 g sugar, vanillin or lemon zest are added.
Dough with sour cream: 300 g flour, 100 g sour cream, 150 g butter, 1 egg, ¼ teaspoon of soda, a little salt, 1-2 tablespoons of sugar.
Dough with cottage cheese: 300 g of flour, 200 g of butter, 200 g of cottage cheese, ½ teaspoon of salt, 1-2 tablespoons of sugar. There are no eggs.
Dough with cheese: 200 g flour, 150 g grated cheese, 150 g butter, 1 egg. This dough is also suitable for cheesecake.
Chocolate dough: 180 g (one and a half cups) of flour, 100 g sugar, 2 tbsp cocoa, half a teaspoon of baking powder, vanillin, 100 g butter, 1 egg.
Other types of dough
You can make homemade cookies with jam, the dough recipe of which is not needed. It is simply bought at the store (yeast, puff, puff yeast), unsettled (yeast - rises, puff - thaws, yeast-puff slightly rises), rolled into a layer (cake) and one cake is baked first (then the dish is baked faster) or together with the filling.
The recipe for homemade cookies on margarine with jam is the same as with butter, this product needs the same amount. Baking on margarine is more magnificent, but the aftertaste is better on the one in butter.
Dough preparation method: chop fat with flour, into which all dry products are added, add eggs (sour cream, if there is a recipe) and quickly knead the dough, roll it into a bowl and refrigerate for an hour or more. Kneading should not be delayed, the stretching shortcrust pastry will be stiff after baking.
Then everything is as usual: roll out the dough (up to 1-1.5 cm) and bake a large cake, cut it in half, spread one part with jam and cover with another. Press tightly together, then cut into pieces of any shape.
This is one of the recipes for homemade jam cookies.
Shtreisel coated version
The recipe for homemade cookies with jam and crumbs is the same as the previous one, but the filling layer is not covered with a second cake, but sprinkled with crumbs consisting of crumbled shortcrust pastry or shtrezel. It turns out very tasty.
Recipe for Shtreisel. Pour chopped nuts, biscuit crumbs or breadcrumbs, salt, baking powder, grated lemon zest and sugar onto a chopping board, mix well. In the resulting mass, put pieces of butter, chop everything into large pieces with a knife and grind in the palms of your hands until crumbs - shtrezel form. The amount of shtrezel for coating the layer of jam is not less than 1/3 of the dough.
Easier recipe
Homemade simple cookies with jam are prepared from the following products:
Margarine - 150 g, sugar - 100 g, sour cream - ¾ cup, potato starch - 100 g, flour - 200 g, baking powder - 1 teaspoon. Melt and chilled margarine mix with sour cream and add the well-mixed remaining products, quickly knead and spread on a baking sheet with a teaspoon of cake. Bake in a moderately hot oven until golden brown. Glue the cooled cakes in two pieces with thick jam.
Another option
If your filling was very liquid, then the following simple recipe for homemade cookies with jam is useful to you. He is also simple.
Products: jam syrup - 1 cup, margarine - 100 g, ginger - 1 teaspoon, cinnamon - 1 teaspoon, chopped orange or lemon peel, 100 g sugar, 2 eggs, half a glass of sour cream, two or two and a half glasses flour, half a teaspoon of soda and baking powder.
Preparation: heat the syrup with margarine and mix, spices and zest are added to the cooled syrup, then eggs, whipped or mashed with sugar, sour cream and finally flour mixed with soda and baking powder. The resulting dough is poured onto a greased and floury baking sheet and baked until cooked. Grease the resulting cake with a thick part of the jam and sprinkle with shtrezel from flour and butter and put in the oven for a few more minutes.
Cookies Fudge (Glaze) Recipes
To decorate cookies, you can use one or more colorful glazed sweets. Cookies can be dipped in icing, can be applied on top with a brush.
White (protein glaze) - 2 egg whites, 200 g of powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice (or dry citric acid diluted with water). Sieve powdered sugar through a sieve into a bowl, add whipped proteins and lemon juice, mix quickly. If desired, food coloring can be added to the protein glaze and make it colorful. After application, the icing is dried in the oven for about 10 minutes, or in the air - about 1-2 hours.
Pink - made from icing sugar 50 g with the addition of 2/3 teaspoon of cranberry juice, or cherry, or pomegranate. Instead of juice, you can add brightly colored liquor. Everything mixes quickly and is applied with a brush to cookies. If the icing is liquid, you can add more powder.
Yellow-orange - made from a mixture of powdered sugar (50 g) with hot milk (1 teaspoon) and turmeric on the tip of a knife.
Chocolate - a mixture of 1 tbsp of sour cream, 50 g of chocolate and 5 tbsp of sugar. All ingredients are mixed and boiled, but not boiled. Apply after cooling the glaze.
Coffee - 100 g of powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon of butter and 1 teaspoon of hot strong coffee. Mix everything quickly and use immediately.
If there is food coloring, then fondant can be made from powdered sugar with the addition of strong alcohol and dye.
It must be remembered that red wine gives a tan fudge. And if you want to use beetroot or carrot juice, you need to add a little lemon juice or citric acid for color stability.
Preparing jam for cookies
If the jam is not thick enough, you can add potato starch to it (even up to half the volume) and warm the mixture with stirring. Liquid jam will leak from the products, spoiling the whole view. You can throw the jam on a sieve and use only a thick part. It should be remembered that chilled jam seems thick, try to warm it a little to check it for viscosity (density). To make the jam thicker, you can add biscuit or sand crumbs, ground nuts, chopped corn flakes.
Together with jam, you can add raisins, spices, marmalade, candied fruits (candied fruits) and nuts, or you can mix soft butter with jam and grease cookies with the mixture.
Tartlets with jam and cream
Shortbread dough and molds are used. Roll the dough thinly, cut out the mugs and cover them with molds, slightly pressing them to the edges. Bake the molds upside down until golden brown. Fill the cooled baskets with jam, and then cream. These baskets are larger than the tins. If you need smaller baskets, then they are baked inside the molds. Any use cream to fill the baskets: butter, custard, protein, but not very sweet, since the jam at the bottom of the tin is already sweet.
Cookie cutters and more for creating curly cookies
To cut out curly cookies, you can use molds, you can cut out a glass and another. You can make the dough less thick and squeeze the cookies with a syringe with nozzles. You can make “sausages” from the dough and cut them into circles, bake and grease in pairs with jam. You can spread jam on cookies before baking. You can make cake, grease with a very thick jam. Then, rolled into a roll, cut into circles, fashioning roses and more.
There are a great many recipes for homemade cookies with jam, and you can decorate the finished product in different ways. It is only necessary to remember that for too long the mixed dough becomes hard and tasteless during baking.