Strawberry Jam Cookies

🧂 Ingredients

• 250 g all purpose flour
• 175 g butter
• 150 g soft brown sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• Strawberry jam
• 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
• 1 egg white

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 175 °Celsius and line baking trays with parchment paper.
• 2 Cream butter, brown sugar, and salt till creamy. Add the egg yolks, followed by
  vanilla extract and continue to beat until the eggs and vanilla are well
  incorporated into the creamed mixture.
• 3 Carefully add in the flour and mix until it is all well incorporated. Wrap dough
  with cling wrap and refrigerate for 10 minutes.
• 4 Remove dough from the refrigerator and roll out between 2 plastic sheets or
  parchment paper to about ¾ cm thickness. Cut the dough using a scalloped round
  cutter until all the cookie dough is used up.
• 5 For half of the cookie circles, cut out a tiny heart in the centers. Re-roll the
  heart cuts outs and cut out more cookies until all the dough is used up again.
• 6 Brush egg white all over the top of cookies with the heart cut out holes and
  sprinkle poppy seeds on them.
• 7 Bake all the cookies for about 12 minutes until they turn golden brown.
• 8 Remove cookies from the oven and let them rest for 2 minutes in the tray before
  transferring them to a wire rack.
• 9 To assemble the cookies, spread some strawberry jam on cookies without the heart
  cut out holes and top them with the cookies with the heart cut out holes.
• 10 Arrange the cookies on the baking tray once again and return them to the oven
  for another 10 minutes.
• 11 Remove the cookies from the oven and transfer them onto a wire rack to cool
  completely before storing them in an airtight container.

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