Makes 24
Ingredients
225g soft Kerrygold butter
140g caster sugar
1 medium egg yolk
dash vanilla essence
280g Odlums plain flour
2 tsp cornflour
pinch salt
100g berry jam
Icing
150g icing sugar
2tbsp water
Method
- In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar until light and pale in colour.
- Scrape down the sides and add the egg yolk and vanilla. Mix to combine.
- In a separate bowl, sieve the flour, cornflour and salt.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until fully combined leaving a soft dough.
- Divide the dough into 24 balls (you can freeze the dough at this point if you wish to make a smaller batch)
- Roll the dough between your hands to smooth out and place these balls on lined baking trays. Allow some distance between each cookie as they wil spread during cooking.
- Using the back of a teaspoon or a clean thumb, press into the center of each cookie leaving a large indent. This will hold your jam.
- Make sure there are no cracks as the jam will leak out.
- Place these into the fridge for 40 minutes to firm up or in the freezer for 20 minutes.
- Once rested and cold, spoon some berry jam into the center of each cookie.
- Place these into a pre heated oven set at 190C/170C Fan/Gas 5 and bake for 11 minutes.
- Once lightly golden brown, remove from the oven and allow to cool. Please take care at this point as the jam is extremely hot.
- When cooling, in a bowl whisk together the icing sugar and water to make a thick paste.
- Using a fork you can drizzle the icing over the cold cookies and serve.
