These cute little shortbread cookies with jelly or jam in the middle are the best things since merengues. They're really simple and quick to make, but you may end up making a few batches because you eat them all... Ingredients- -1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened -3 tablespoons sugar -1 teaspoon vanilla extract -1 cup flour -About 2-3 tablespoons jelly or jam (it's far easier to just take the jar and a spoon) 1. Beat sugar, vanilla, and butter until light and fluffy. 2. Add the flour and beat to form a smooth dough. 3. Roll teaspoon-sized balls of dough, spacing about 1 inch apart on cookie tray with parchment paper 4. With your thumb, make an indentation in the top of the cookie. This part is always a little frustrating, and I learned the hard way that dough sticks less to clean hands than greased. 5. Fill the indentation with jelly. It's okay if it's a little messy. 6. Bake at 400 for about 10 minutes, until tops of cookies begi...
4/29/18 Okay, so yesterday I tried to make PB cookies. We were short on flour, so I thought it was a lovely little quirk that the recipe didn't call for flour. Looking back on it, that should have made me deeply suspicious, especially since the title of the recipe wasn't "Flourless PB Cookies." It was probably a typo to leave that out. Sooo... anyways we stuck it in the oven for the called-for amount of time and it ended up looking like this- So as you can tell, this fun little plan didn't work out so well. When I put it in the oven, instead of solidifying into cookies, the batter sort of all melted together into one big lump in the pan. Then it started bubbling, which is really random for cookies. When we took it out, it had made a sort of greasy, soft, wet brittle, I guess you could call it, but it wasn't brittle. It wasn't bad though!! If you ever want to make a peanut-buttery apple dip with a very strange texture, or w...