my kitchen world tour: Raspberry Jam Sandwich Cookies

I cause got a novel favorite cookie Raspberry Jam Sandwich Cookies. Take 2 perfectly delicious homemade butter cookies joined together past times gooey raspberry jam filling, together with you've got yourself a footling chip of cookie awesomeness.

Take 2 perfectly delicious homemade butter cookies joined together past times gooey raspberry ja Raspberry Jam Sandwich Cookies

One of my husband's favorite snacks is a 'jam sandwich.' I'll take away heed him rummaging around inward the kitchen together with when asked what he's doing he'll say, 'Making a jam sandwich.' But his version of a jam sandwich is non what y'all think.

Nope. My husband's version of a jam sandwich is butter together with bread. What??? Butter together with breadstuff brand a jam sandwich?

In my husband's world, yes.

See, he says 'You cause got 2 pieces of bread, set butter on them, together with jam them together. Jam sandwich!'

Well, I'm happy to tell these Raspberry Jam Sandwich Cookies are non at all similar my hubby's version of a jam sandwich. No. These delicious my-new-favorite-cookies genuinely ...
... cause got jam inward them. Imagine that.

Yes, they cause got a real yummy thick raspberry jam filling ... made past times only simmering seedless raspberry jam on the stove overstep for a bit. It turns into a perfectly gooey hold-your-cookies-together-and-tastes-great jam sandwich cookie filling.

They produce likewise cause got a bunch of butter inward them.

But it's inward the rich together with tasty butter cookie dough shape ... non inward the smushed-between-two-pieces-of-bread to brand a crazy sandwich form.

The dough bakes upward into the best butter cookies I've always had.

That together with therefore larn fifty-fifty amend when 2 of them are sandwiched together alongside raspberry jam filling.

Divine cookie awesomeness.

So yeh, my married adult man tin swallow all the butter-and-bread 'jam' sandwiches he wants.

As for me? I'll live enjoying these heavenly cookies. 'Cause they're my kind of jam sandwich!

Raspberry Sandwich Cookies

Source: Adapted from Cook's Illustrated Baking Book: Baking Demystified
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

2 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
3/4 c. granulated sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
16 T. (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened & cutting into sixteen pieces
2 T. cream cheese, softened to room temperature
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/4 c. seedless raspberry jam
2 T. turbinado saccharide (sugar inward the raw)

Directions

PREPARE THE RASPBERRY FILLING: Place jam inward a small-scale saucepan; convey to a simmer over medium heat. Reduce oestrus to depression together with simmer, stirring frequently, until jam has reduced to 1 cup, most 10 minutes. Jam volition live real thick. Set aside to cool to room temperature.
PREPARE THE COOKIE DOUGH: Place flour, sugar, together with tabular array salt inward the bowl of a stand upward mixer (or large mixing bowl); mix on depression speed most 10 seconds until good combined.
With the mixer running at depression speed, add together 1 slice of butter at a fourth dimension dropping them inward most three seconds apart. Once all the butter is added, maintain mixing most 1 to 2 minutes to a greater extent than until the mixture resembles moist crumbs. Beat inward cream cheese together with vanilla for most thirty seconds until dough starts to shape large clumps.
Use your hands to knead dough until it comes together into a large ball, most three or iv turns.
Divide dough into 2 equal pieces, press each slice into a circular slightly flattened disc, twine each inward plastic wrap, together with chill inward the fridge for thirty minutes until theatre but all the same pliable.
MAKE COOKIES FOR THE BOTTOM OF THE SANDWICH: Working alongside 1 dough slice {keep the other 1 inward the refrigerator}, whorl to 1/8-inch thick betwixt 2 pieces of parchment newspaper or on a lightly floured move surface. Peel away overstep canvass of parchment {if using}.
Use a 2-inch fluted circular or flower/wreath cookie cutter to cutting cookies from the rolled dough. Place on a baking canvass together with bake at 375 degrees until lite golden brown, most 8 - 10 minutes. Allow to cool on baking canvass for 2 - three minutes together with and therefore transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
MAKE COOKIES FOR THE TOP OF THE SANDWICH: Roll remaining dough slice together with sprinkle the overstep evenly alongside the turbinado sugar. Use the same fluted/flower/wreath cookie cutter to cutting cookies from the dough. Use a 3/4-inch circular cookie cutter {or biscuit cutter ... or anything else 3/4-inch circular y'all tin discovery } to cutting out the centre of each sugar-sprinkled cookie. Bake inward the same trend every bit the bottom-of-the-sandwich cookies.
ASSEMBLE SANDWICH COOKIES: Once cookies cause got cooled, spread a teaspoon of jam filling on the overstep of each 'bottom' {solid} cookie together with and therefore identify a cut-out cookie on top. Let represent most thirty minutes earlier serving to allow the jam filling to set.