Jam Filled Sandwich Cookies
These jam filled sandwich cookies are cut into holiday shapes and decorated with sprinkles and sanding sugar. A fun way to dress up simple sugar cookies for the holidays!
Ingredients
- 1 batch sugar cookie dough, see notes
- 3/4 cup jam, see notes
- sprinkles, nonpareils, or sanding sugar, see notes
Instructions
- In a lightly floured surface, roll out your sugar cookie dough to 1/4-inch thick. Using desired cookie cutters, cut out shapes.
- Place some sprinkles or sanding sugar on a plate, preferably with a lip if you are using nonpareils so they don't roll off the plate. Gently press the cookie cut outs into your topping of choice. You may need to sprinkle some additional on top or move the cookie around a little if you don't get even coverage.
- I only did this with the top cookie, the bottom cookie does not need sprinkles since you wouldn't see it anyways. If you like more sprinkles, feel free to do both!
- After covering in sprinkles, use a smaller cutter to cut out the center of the larger cookie. Only do this to half of the cookies, you want full cookies for the bottom of the sandwich.
- Bake according to the recipe and let the cookies cool completely on a wire cooling rack.
- Fill the cookies with a jam of your choice. Don't over fill the cookies as the jam will leak out the sides. I placed about 2 tsp of jam in the middle of the bottom cookie and used a spoon to spread it out to almost the edge of the cookie. Place the cookie with the cut out on top and gently press down.
- Store in an airtight container. The cookies should keep fresh for 2-3 days in the fridge, but you can freeze up to a month.
Notes
- My current favorite sugar cookie recipe is from Jenny's Cookies, but you can use your favorite recipe.
- Any cookie cutters will work. You don't have to make cookies with cut outs but it adds a nice touch when you can see what kind of filling is in the cookie.
- I used raspberry lemon and blueberry lemon freezer jam. Both were made using my strawberry lemon freezer jam recipe. I also used a jarred apricot jam as well. Feel free to use any jam you like.
- I have tons of holiday sprinkles on hand and like to stock up after the holidays. I used sanding sugar and nonpareils, but you could also use jimmies or sprinkles as long as they don't have pieces that are too big.
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