INGREDIENTS:
- All purpose flour – 1 and 1/2 cup
- Sugar – 1/4 to 2/3 cup
- Egg – 1 no
- Butter, at room temperature – 1/2 cup
- Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
- Salt – 1/8 tsp
- Grape jam – 3 Tbsp
METHOD:
- Premeasure and layout all the ingredients in your work place to make Grape jam Button Cookies.
- Line a large rectangular baking tray with parchment paper. Keep it aside.
- In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed beat butter and sugar until smooth.
- Now add egg and vanilla and beat until well blended.
- Stir in flour and salt and beat just until dough comes together. Keep blending until you have a uniform and crumbly mixture to obtain the cookie dough.
- Turn out the dough onto a clean surface well-dusted with flour and roll out it with a rolling pin until you have flattened it out to a ¼-inch thick sheet.
- Preheat oven to 350 degree F.
- Use a 3-inch round cookie cutter to carve out cookies and place them on the buttered or parchment lined baking tray, maintaining a 3-inch gap between cookies. Gather up the scraps and roll it out again and do this until there is no dough left.
- Make a slight indentation at the center of every cookie using the backside of a ¼ teaspoon measuring spoon, fill the indentation up with the grape jam. I filled the indentation after baking the cookies.
- Bake your cookies until lightly browned, about 15 - 20 minutes. If you are baking more than one baking tray at a time, switch baking tray positions halfway through baking.
- Let cookies cool on baking tray for 5 minutes, then use a wide spatula to transfer them to racks to cool completely.
- Now you can spoon about 1/8 teaspoon grape jam into the center of each cooled cookie.
- Your Grape jam Button cookies are ready to serve.
