Spiced Jam Spritz Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup confectioner’s sugar (plus more for garnish – optional)
1 large egg, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract, room temperature
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup Spiced Christmas Jam

Directions

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and prepare a baking sheet by lining it with a silicone baking mat. Set aside.

In a mixing bowl, beat together the butter and the sugar until well combined – about 2 minutes.

Add the egg and the vanilla extract. Beat into the butter and sugar mixture until completely incorporated.

Sift together the flour, and baking powder. Add it to the butter mixture and beat until just combined.

Load the cookie dough into a cookie press which has been fitted with a disc of your choosing. One with an indented center works best to hold the jam in place.

Press the dough onto the prepared baking sheet, leaving 1 inch of space between each cookie.

Top the middle of each pressed cookie with about ½ teaspoon of spiced jam. Be sure to not overfill the center of the cookie, otherwise, the jam will spill over the cookie.

Bake for 8 minutes.

Remove from oven and allow the cookies to cool slightly on the baking sheet for 2 minutes.

Transfer the cookies to a wire cooling rack to finish cooling.