Jam Filled Bow Tie Cookies
28 min
1 servings
These are flaky buttery pastry cookies with jam in the middle made to look like bows for the holiday season.
Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 large egg, beaten (for the egg wash to seal edges)Garnish with powdered sugarFilling Suggestions:
- jam fillings such as cherry, blueberry, pineapple, apricot, orange marmalade peach, blackberry, red raspberry,fig
- mixed fillings with walnuts, cinnamon, brown sugar, dates or raisins
- ground pistachios, egg white with a little almond paste mixed in
- maraschino red and green cherries chopped
- Nutella
- coconut and chopped chocolate or mini chocolate chips
- peanut butter
Directions
- 1
Mix all ingredients together to make the soft dough in a heavy mixer.
- 2
This is easier to handle if you refrigerate it for 20 minutes.
- 3
Flour a cutting board., roll the dough out.
- 4
Cut with a fluted edged pastry cutter or use a circle cookie cutter.
- 5
Fill with a little bit of the jam.
- 6
Brush edges with egg wash.
- 7
Fold circle toward the center and pinch to form bows in the middle.
- 8
Bake at 400 hot preheated oven until set.
- 9
Around 10 to 15 minutes until slightly golden brown.
- 10
Cool completely on wax paper or parchment paper.
- 11
Sprinkle with powdered sugar.