Raspberry Thumbprints with Jam

Raspberry Thumbprints 

Photograph: Jenny 

My mom has recently been making a lot of batches of sugar cookies with jam. This cookie is a lot like the cookie with a hershey kiss in the middle. Instead of a hershey kiss in the middle of a cookie, she decided to use her homemade rasberry jam. The jam plays a nice fruity contrast in comparison to the sugary cookie.

This recipe is used from the Babbo Cookbook by Mario Batali

Ingredients:

• One stick of butter
• 1 1/2 cups of granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
• 1/2 cup of mascarpone cheese
• 2 3/4 cup of flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• Jam

Directions:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees farenheit
• Cream the butter and sugar together with a mixer
• Add the vanilla and egg and mix
• Add the mascarpone cheese and mix

• Add the dry ingredients and mix (flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt)
• When you are ready to bake the cookies, allow the dough to be at room temperature and shape into balls. Place the balls on a piece of parchment paper and make an indentation with the dough.
• Bake for about 12-15 minutes at 325 degrees farenheit
• Add the jam