The recipe for shortbread with strawberry jam
A great classic of French pastries. Simple to make, these small shortbread cookies with strawberry jam will delight young and old.
Ingredients of shortbread with strawberry jam
- 250 gr of soft butter
- 125 gr of icing sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- 450 gr of Flour
- 50 gr of cornflour
- 1 teaspoon of yeast
- 1 jar of strawberry jam
Preparation of shortbread with strawberry jam
- Mix the butter and icing sugar to obtain a creamy mixture. Add the egg yolks one by one then the packet of vanilla sugar.
- Mix the flour, the cornflour and the baking powder then incorporate into the previous mixture.
- Form a ball with the resulting dough and set aside to cool for 30 minutes.
- Roll out the dough (thickness 5 mm) on a lightly floured work surface (not too much otherwise the dough will split). Cut out shapes using your cookie cutters. Preheat your oven to 180 ° C then bake your shortbread cookies for 12 to 15 minutes.
- Once the shortbread cookies have completely cooled, spread the strawberry jam on the base and sprinkle the icing sugar on the hollowed-out part (for a nice finish use a tea strainer).
- Assemble the shortbread two by two and enjoy!
