Shortbread cookies with jam

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make shortbread cookies with jam? Prepare the products. Pre-sift the flour, this will not only remove possible debris, but also saturate it with oxygen, which will make the baking more airy. Choose high-quality butter, without additives, corresponding to GOST. The taste of the finished cookies will depend on this. Any jam will do, but it's better if it's thick. Add a little starch to the liquid jam.

2. Step 2:

   

   Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance, cut into pieces and leave for 30 minutes at room temperature to soften.

3. Step 3:

   

   When the butter becomes very soft, pour sugar into it and beat with a mixer until a fluffy light mass.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add the egg yolk to the butter-sugar mixture, mix.

5. Step 5:

   

   Pour flour into it and mix the dough with a spoon. Attention! Flour may need more or less. Focus on the consistency of the dough. If the dough sticks, add a little more flour. But little by little, exactly until the dough stops sticking to your hands.

7. Step 6:

   

   Form a smooth ball from the dough.

8. Step 7:

   

   Then, on a table dusted with flour, roll out the dough into a layer 5 mm thick. Cut circles out of it. When slicing, dip the mold into flour so that it does not stick to the dough.

9. Step 8:

   

   Cover the baking sheet with parchment and put the cookie blanks on it. Make a small recess in the center of each blank.

10. Step 9:

    

    Arrange fruit or berry jam in the recesses.

11. Step 10:

    

    Bake cookies in the oven for 10-12 minutes at 180 degrees. It is not necessary to bake longer so that they do not become hard. For the same reason, immediately remove the cookies from the hot baking sheet. Serve it to the table in a warm form. Bon appetit!