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Blackberry Walnut Cookies
Makesabout 20 cookies
- Active time:40 min
- Start to finish:1 3/4 hr (includes cooling)
December 2008
It’s a holiday party—you must have cookies. We double your pleasure by offering not one but two buttery, nutty shortbread rounds in each cookie. They sandwich tart berry jam under a drift of confectioners sugar.
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
- 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup walnuts, toasted, cooled, and finely chopped
- About 1/2 cup seedless blackberry or raspberry jam
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Garnish:
confectioners sugar for dusting
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Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle.
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Blend together butter, sugars, vanilla, and 3/4 tsp salt in a bowl with a fork. Stir in flour and nuts (dough will be sticky).
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Form level tablespoons of dough into balls (total of 40) and arrange 2 inches apart on 2 ungreased large baking sheets. Flatten balls to 1/3 inch thick using bottom of a glass dipped in flour. Bake, 1 sheet at a time, until edges are golden, about 20 minutes. Cool cookies on sheets 5 minutes, then transfer to racks to cool completely.
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Spoon 1 tsp jam onto flat sides of 20 cookies, then sandwich with remaining cookies.
Cooks’ notes:
- Unfilled cookies can be made 1 day ahead and kept in an airtight container at room temperature.
- Cookies can be filled with jam up to 8 hours ahead.
- Keywords
- paul grimes,
- winter holidays,
- winter,
- dessert,
- cookies
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