Jam Sandwiches

Name: Jam Sandwiches
Yield: Makes about 30 cookies
Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour (12 1/2 ounces; 354 grams); 3/4 cup, superfine sugar, (5 1/2 ounces; 156 grams); 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 16 tablespoons, unsalted butter (2 sticks), cut into sixteen 1/2-inch pieces, at cool room temperature (about 65 degrees); 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 2 tablespoons, cream cheese, at room temperature; 2 tablespoons, turbinado sugar, Demerera, or white decorating sugar; 1 1/4 cups, raspberry jam (12 ounces; 340 grams), strained, simmered until reduced to 1 cup, and cooled to room temperature

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2003

Desserts or Baked Goods

Rolling out cookie dough is a sticky business. Most recipes add excess flour, and the resulting cookies are tough. Could we make tender, crispy cookies that roll out easily?

SERVESMakes about 30 cookies

TIME1¼ hours, plus 20 minutes cooling and 30 minutes setting

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

In our search for a holiday cookie recipe that would yield cookies sturdy enough to decorate yet tender enough to eat, we started with the fat and found the right amount of butter to give the cookies great flavor without making them greasy....

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