Cookie Recipes
Raspberry Sandwich Cookies
Yield: 3 dozen
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup seedless raspberry preserves
Instructions
- Heat oven to 300 degrees F.
- Cream butter; gradually add confectioners' sugar, beating at medium speed of an electric mixer. Add flour and vanilla extract, mixing well.
- Shape dough to 1/8 inch thickness on a lightly floured surface. Cut with a 2 inch round cutter. Use a 3/4 inch cutter to cut out a star (can use any decorative design) in center of half the cookies. Pierce solid cookies with the tines of a fork.
- Place cookies on ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until the cookies are very lightly browned.
- Cool cookies on wire racks.
- Just before serving, spread top of each solid cookie with about 1/2 teaspoon of raspberry preserves. Top each with cookie cutout.