Raspberry Jam Sandwich Cookies

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

One of my husband's favorite snacks is a 'jam sandwich.' I'll listen him rummaging roughly 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 accept ii pieces of bread, seat 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 truly ...
... stimulate got jam inward them. Imagine that.

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

They create besides stimulate 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 upwards into the best butter cookies I've always had.

That together with then larn fifty-fifty meliorate when ii of them are sandwiched together amongst raspberry jam filling.

Divine cookie awesomeness.

So yeh, my hubby 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 xvi 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 modest saucepan; convey to a simmer over medium heat. Reduce oestrus to depression together with simmer, stirring frequently, until jam has reduced to 1 cup, near 10 minutes. Jam volition live really 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 upwards mixer (or large mixing bowl); mix on depression speed near 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 near iii seconds apart. Once all the butter is added, move along mixing near 1 to 2 minutes to a greater extent than until the mixture resembles moist crumbs. Beat inward cream cheese together with vanilla for near thirty seconds until dough starts to shape large clumps.
Use your hands to knead dough until it comes together into a large ball, near iii or iv turns.
Divide dough into ii equal pieces, press each slice into a circular slightly flattened disc, wind each inward plastic wrap, together with chill inward the fridge for thirty minutes until draw of piece of job solid but however pliable.
MAKE COOKIES FOR THE BOTTOM OF THE SANDWICH: Working amongst i dough slice {keep the other i inward the refrigerator}, curlicue to 1/8-inch thick betwixt 2 pieces of parchment newspaper or on a lightly floured function surface. Peel away hand canvas 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 canvas together with bake at 375 degrees until lite golden brown, near 8 - 10 minutes. Allow to cool on baking canvas for 2 - iii minutes together with and then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
MAKE COOKIES FOR THE TOP OF THE SANDWICH: Roll remaining dough slice together with sprinkle the hand evenly amongst 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 honor } to cutting out the oculus of each sugar-sprinkled cookie. Bake inward the same agency equally the bottom-of-the-sandwich cookies.
ASSEMBLE SANDWICH COOKIES: Once cookies stimulate got cooled, spread a teaspoon of jam filling on the hand of each 'bottom' {solid} cookie together with and then identify a cut-out cookie on top. Let represent near thirty minutes earlier serving to allow the jam filling to set.