Raspberry Filled Butter Cookie Recipes

RASPBERRY BUTTER COOKIES RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside. In a mixing bowl, blend butter and sugar together until creamy. Add egg and vanilla extract. Mix until creamy. Whisk together flour and baking powder. Mix into butter mixture until incorporated. Put cookie dough into a pastry bag and pipe into cookie shapes. Press tiny indent into the center of each cookie. Pipe in 1/8 teaspoon jam into the center of each cookie. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until the edges are golden brown. Allow to cool completely. Serve and ENJOY!

RASPBERRY FILLED BUTTER COOKIE RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Mix cookie dough. *I used my favorite Butter Cookie Recipe or you could buy Pillsbury refrigerated cookie dough!
• Roll out cookie dough to about 1/4-inch thickness *you may want to watch how I roll out cookie dough video
• Use a star cookie cutter (or cutter of your choice) to cut out an even amount of cookies and place 1/2 of them on a baking sheet
• Place a dollop of pie filling in the center of each cookie
• Place another star cookie on top.
• Gently seal cookie with a fork to crimp edges together.
• Bake for 12-14 minutes or until golden brown.
• Remove from oven and let cool completely.
• Drizzle with Glaze Icing

ITALIAN BUTTER COOKIES 1952

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large mixer bowl, cream lightly the butter and sugar until really fluffy and pale, about three minutes.
• Add the egg and vanilla and mix until combined.
• At low speed add the combined dry ingredients and mix until just blended.
• Do not overmix.
• Place into a pastry bag fitted with a star tip, pipe onto prepared parchment lined cookie sheets, spacing two inches apart.
• If dough is too thick to pipe, pour in a few tablespoons of milk.
• If you make wreath or stars, you can add a cherry as decoration now before baking.
• Or you could just roll into small bals and flatten with a fork if desired.
• Bake for 10 to 14 minutes just until the bottoms and edges begin to turn golden brown.
• Remove from pans by sliding thw whole piece of parchment onto a large wire rack, and cool completely.
• Dip fingers or one side of each into melted chocolate and sprinkles if desired.
• Sandwich with raspberry jam also if desired, dip in melted white chocolate and crushed almonds.
• Leave plain also.
• Store in an airtight container.

RASPBERRY SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar and salt; cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in water and extracts until mixture forms a ball. , On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with floured 2-1/2-in. cookie cutters. From the center of half the cookies, cut out a 1-1/2 in. shape. Place 1 in. apart on parchment-lined baking sheets., Bake at 325° for 12-15 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely., Spread 1/2 teaspoon jam over the bottoms of the solid cookies. Sprinkle cutout cookies with confectioners' sugar; place over cookies with jam.

JAM FILLED BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, white sugar and egg yolks. Mix in flour a little bit at a time until a soft dough forms. Roll dough into 1 inch balls. If dough is too soft, refrigerate for 15 to 20 minutes. Place balls 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets. Use your finger or an instrument of similar size to make a well in the center of each cookie. Fill the hole with 1/2 teaspoon of preserves.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown on the bottom. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.

RASPBERRY LINZER COOKIES

Steps:

• Several hours before baking: In a food processor, process the almonds and hazelnuts with 1/2 c of the flour until fine textured, but NOT powdered (To avoid overprocessing, stop the machine occasionally and feel the nuts; they may look like they are still chunky, but they may just be clumping together).
• Add the remain flour and other dry ingredients along with the zest.
• Pulse to combine.
• Cut the butter into 1/2-inch cubes and add to the flour mixture; pulse until the mixture looks like coarse meal.
• Don't overprocess.
• Transfer to a large bowl.
• Whisk together the egg and water; sprinkle over the flour mixture and toss gently to combine.
• The dough should hold together when pinched (if it seems dry, sprinkle on a bit more water).
• Gather the dough into two balls and knead briefly just to blend.
• Wrap in plastic and chill until firm, 2-3 hours.
• TO BAKE: Oven to 325 degrees F.
• Cover your cookie sheets with parchment.
• Generously flour a work surface.
• Roll one ball of dough out 3/16" thick.
• (Keep the rest of the dough in the refrigerator, and if the dough warms up to the point of being sticky while you are working with it, return it to the fridge to chill.) Cut as many of the larger shape as possible out of the dough, rerolling the scraps to make more rounds.
• Arrange on the cookie sheets about 3/4 inch apart.
• Use the small cookie cutter to cut holes in the center of half of the cookies.
• Reroll these little scraps to make more cookies.
• Bake the cookies until the edges are lightly brown, about 15 minutes.
• Let cool on the pans before transferring to cookie racks.
• Repeat with remaining dough.
• To assemble, sift powdered sugar over the cookies with the holes cut in them, then spread a heaping 1/2 tsp.
• of preserves on the bottom of the whole cookie rounds.
• Sandwich the cookies together.
• NOTE: These cookies should be served the day they are put together.
• You can bake the cookies a week early, then sandwich them together a few hours before serving.
• NOTE 2: The dough for this cookie is kind of a pain to work with, and it takes patience, but I promise you, the end result is so worth it.