Tuesdays with Dorie – Buttery Jam Cookies

This recipe was simple enough, but I was a bit perplexed by it as I’ve never used a recipe where the jam is mixed right into the dough.  At first, I thought that the cookies would have a jam filling or topping, but the jam is actually incorporated, giving the cookie a subtle flavor of your fruit of choice.

The dough was very simple to prepare, and these were a quick cookie to make.  They really do taste just like biscuits, as Dorie mentions in the recipe’s introduction.  I used a thick strawberry jam.  I had raspberry preserves on hand, but it is chock full of seeds and I didn’t feel like straining the seeds out.  I didn’t taste the pinch of ginger at all, and being a ginger lover, I would have loved chunks of crystallized ginger in the cookie as Dorie suggests in her “Playing Around” section - but my husband is not a huge fan, so I left them out.  My husband liked the texture of these cookies better the next day.

These were good, though I don’t know if I’d make them again.  There are so many new recipes to try that I don’t often repeat unless a cookie is truly stellar (like my favorite simple chocolate chip cookie recipe).  We enjoyed these very much but I don’t think there will come a day where we’ll crave these cookies. 

Visit the Tuesdays with Dorie page to see how other bakers liked this cookie; and see this week’s host, Randomisty and the Girl, for the recipe.