Shortbread cookies with jam

There are such recipes - seemingly simple, but the result is wonderful. Today's recipe is from just that category. Shortbread cookies with jam are very easy to prepare. It can even be done with children. The products for this baking are also the simplest: butter, sugar, yolk, flour and jam. But the win-win combination of crumbly shortcrust pastry and homemade jam turns simple baked goods into a real culinary delight.

Ingredients

• Butter 150 g
• Wheat flour 240-250 g
• Powdered sugar 70 g
• Yolk 2 pcs.
• Any thick jam 150-200 g

Directions

1. Sift 240 - 250 g of flour into a deep bowl through a sieve. Put softened butter (150 g) into sifted, air-saturated flour.
2. Mix flour and butter in a bowl with your hands. Optionally, you can use a mixer or a spoon, but this shortbread dough is well kneaded by hand. Knead until the whole mass turns into a homogeneous butter crumb.
3. Pour 70 g of powdered sugar and two chicken yolks into a common bowl. Knead the dough with a spoon, mixer or hands. You should end up with a non-sticky, oily ball. Put the dough in a bowl, cover and put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
4. Before working with the jam, mix it well. Then we put 150-200 g of fruit or berry jam in a pastry bag or just a tight bag. If you use a regular bag, then the jam should be tamped tightly into one of the corners and a small incision should be made in this corner. Through it we will squeeze the jam into the middle of each cookie.
5. We take out the cool dough from the refrigerator and form neat balls from it, a little larger than a walnut. Lay the balls in rows on a flat baking sheet covered with parchment paper, leaving a distance between them.
6. To form the jam depressions, you will need something smaller in diameter than the dough balls. This could be a thick spoon handle, the bottom of a thin bottle, or something similar. Make indentations while flattening the balls slightly.
7. In the resulting grooves, gently squeeze the jam through a bag or pastry bag.
8. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and put a sheet of cookies there for 10 - 12 minutes. After this time, remove the cookies from the baking sheet along with the parchment so that they do not become too hard. Cool the finished baked goods on the wire rack and serve with tea.