Valentine Raspberry Sandwich Cookies

With raspberry jam filling sandwiched betwixt rich heart-shaped butter cookies, Valentine Raspberry Sandwich Cookies are the perfect footling sugariness process to spoil your exceptional ones amongst this Valentine's Day.

Valentine's Day is coming upwards soon! I don't know near you, but at our identify Valentine's Day isn't a huge deal. In fact, my husband's catch of Valentine's Day is pretty much this ...

And spell I don't need grand Valentine's gestures, I do like the twenty-four lx minutes menstruum to at to the lowest degree live acknowledged. So my catch of Valentine's Day is to a greater extent than similar this ...

But instead of chocolate, I would gladly receive got a large batch of these Valentine Raspberry Sandwich Cookies equally acknowledgement of the sugariness day.

Because adjacent to chocolate, rich butter cookies sandwiched amongst raspberry jam filling is the adjacent best thing!

These cookies are a version of the Raspberry Jam Sandwich Cookies I previously shared, all dressed upwards for Valentine's Day. Grab heart-shaped cookie cutters too some hot pinkish or ruby colored saccharide ... too you've got all you lot need to whip upwards this Valentine's Day sugariness treat.

I sprinkled my cookies amongst turbinado saccharide commencement too and thus amongst a acquit upon of the colored sugar. Using both sugars together gives the cookies simply a footling extra acquit upon of sparkle ... the turbinado saccharide shimmers a footling inwards the light, making the cookies all beautifully sparkly.

As you lot tin see, I did some amongst ruby saccharide too some amongst hot pink. I similar the hot pinkish ones better.

So whether you've got exceptional ones inwards your life that adore grand Valentine's gestures, or {like me too my hubby} simply similar a little acknowledgement of the day, these Valentine Raspberry Sandwich Cookies volition agree perfectly into your plans. No thing how large or how small-scale those plans may be.

Valentine 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
1 T. turbinado saccharide (sugar inwards the raw)
Pink {or red} sanding sugar

Directions

PREPARE THE RASPBERRY FILLING: Place jam inwards a small-scale saucepan; convey to a simmer over medium heat. Reduce estrus to depression too simmer, stirring frequently, until jam has reduced to 1 cup, near 10 minutes. Jam volition live real thick. Set aside to cool to room temperature.
PREPARE THE COOKIE DOUGH: Place flour, sugar, too common salt inwards 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 inwards near iii seconds apart. Once all the butter is added, locomote on mixing near 1 to 2 minutes to a greater extent than until the mixture resembles moist crumbs. Beat inwards cream cheese too vanilla for near xxx seconds until dough starts to cast large clumps.
Use your hands to knead dough until it comes together into a large ball, near iii or 4 turns.
Divide dough into 2 equal pieces, press each slice into a circular slightly flattened disc, roll each inwards plastic wrap, too chill inwards the fridge for xxx minutes until theatre but yet pliable.
MAKE COOKIES FOR THE BOTTOM OF THE SANDWICH: Working amongst i dough slice {keep the other i inwards the refrigerator}, curlicue to 1/8-inch thick betwixt 2 pieces of parchment newspaper or on a lightly floured locomote surface. Peel away transcend canvass of parchment {if using}.
Use an roughly 2-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter to cutting cookies from the rolled dough. Place on a baking canvass too bake at 375 degrees until lite golden brown, near 8 - 10 minutes. Allow to cool on baking canvass for 2 - iii minutes too and thus transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
MAKE COOKIES FOR THE TOP OF THE SANDWICH: Roll remaining dough slice too sprinkle the transcend evenly amongst the turbinado sugar; too thus add together a small-scale sprinkling of pinkish {or red} sanding sugar. Use the same heart-shaped cookie cutter to cutting cookies from the dough. Use a smaller heart-shaped cookie cutter to cutting out the pump of each sugar-sprinkled cookie. Bake inwards the same fashion equally the bottom-of-the-sandwich cookies.
ASSEMBLE SANDWICH COOKIES: Once cookies receive got cooled, spread a teaspoon of jam filling on the transcend of each 'bottom' {solid} cookie too and thus identify a cut-out cookie on top. Let correspond near xxx minutes earlier serving to allow the jam filling to set.