Homemade butter cookies can rightfully be considered one of the brightest representatives of home baking. Besides that his the recipe is unusually simple, and the ingredients are in almost any at home, these cute cookies keep the warmth of the hands of the one who bakes them. First, dense balls are rolled from the dough, and then with the thumb make a deepening, fill it with jam and bake. Special relevant cookies in the period of Christmas and New Year holidays. You can bake it in bulk with jams different colors that decorate with colorful brooches стоl 
Time: 1 hour. Complexity: easy Quantity: 25 – 30 cookies Recipes use measured capacity: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cups (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1 teahouse spoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 1 and 3/4 Art. premium flour
- 0.5 tsp baking powder
- 0.5 tsp fine salt
- 165 gr. softened butter
- 2/3 Art. sugar + optionally for rolling
- 1 large egg
- Half a vanilla pod, scrape seeds, or 1/8 tsp. vanilla paste or 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/3 Art. raspberry, cherry or strawberry jam
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Recipe preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 175 ° C. Cover 2 parchment baking sheets paper or silicone rugs.
- In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. In another bowl Use a hand mixer to beat the butter and sugar until lush, about 5 minutes. Then mix in the egg and vanilla. Slowly at two add dry ingredients to the mix to simply mix them.
- Scoop the dough with an ice cream or cookie spoon and form balls with a diameter of 2.5 cm. and roll them in sugar. Lay the balls of dough on prepared baking sheets in the distance about 5 cm apart. In each ball with a thumb make a 1 cm recess. Fill each indent 3/4 h. л. strawberry jam.
- Bake cookies until the edges are golden, about 15 minutes. To bake cookies evenly, in the middle of baking swap baking sheets. Cool cookies on baking sheets. Serve. Store cookies in a tightly closed container in within 5 days.
