Description
Delicious soft cookies filled with bright mulberry jam, perfect for a snack or gift.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 2 sticks salted butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons vanilla
- Mulberries
- Sugar
- Lemon juice
- A few lemon seeds
Instructions
- Add flour, baking powder, and powdered sugar to a large bowl and stir to combine.
- Cut butter into small pieces and place in a small bowl to melt.
- Add melted butter and vanilla to the dry mix and stir until smooth.
- Cover the dough and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Wash and drain your mulberries and weigh them.
- Put mulberries in a food processor and pulse for about one minute.
- Transfer the mashed mulberries to a pot.
- Add half the weight of the mulberries in sugar to the pot.
- Heat the pot on medium high until the mix comes to a boil.
- Let the mix boil for five minutes while stirring.
- Lower the heat to medium low and cook until the juice reduces by about half.
- Add the juice of one half lemon and a few lemon seeds.
- Continue to cook until the jam thickens and coats a spoon.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment.
- Scoop a tablespoon of dough and roll it into a ball.
- Place the ball on the sheet and push your thumb into the center to make a nest.
- Space the cookies so they do not touch each other.
- Add about one teaspoon of mulberry jam to the center of each cookie.
- Make sure not to overfill the centers with jam.
- Bake the cookies in the preheated oven for 12 to 15 minutes.
- Remove the baking sheet and let the cookies rest for a few minutes.
- Transfer the cookies to a rack and cool them all the way.
Notes
Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to three days. For longer life, freeze cooled cookies.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 160
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 220mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 23g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 30mg
Keywords: mulberry cookies, sweet treats, baking, desserts, homemade cookies