Best Jewel Box Cookies Recipes

Jewel Box Cookies image

Provided by Food Network

Categories dessert

Time 32m

Yield 6 dozen

Number Of Ingredients 6

1 cup plus 2 tbsps. Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 large egg yolk, beaten
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 cup Smucker's® Cherry Preserves, or your favorite jam or preserves

Steps:

COMBINE flour and sugar in large bowl. Cut in butter with pastry blender or two knives until coarse crumbs form. Add beaten egg yolk and vanilla. Mix until dough holds together.
SHAPE into small balls using half teaspoonfuls. Place 1-inch apart on cookie sheet. Make small indentation in center of each cookie. Chill 20 minutes.
HEAT oven to 350 degrees F. Fill each cookie with scant 1/4 teaspoon jam, jelly or preserves. Bake 11 to 13 minutes or until just golden around the edges.
For added sparkle, unbaked cookies may be rolled in coarse bakery sugar crystals before being placed on cookie sheet to chill.

Jewel Box Cookies image

Provided by Smuckersreg

Categories Dessert

Time 32m

Yield 6 dozen

Number Of Ingredients 6

1 cup Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour, plus 2 tbsps
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 large egg yolk, beaten
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup Smucker's® Cherry Preserves (or your favorite jam or preserves)

Steps:

COMBINE flour and sugar in large bowl. Cut in butter with pastry blender or two knives until coarse crumbs form. Add beaten egg yolk and vanilla. Mix until dough holds together.
SHAPE into small balls using half teaspoonfuls. Place 1 inch apart on cookie sheet. Make small indentation in center of each cookie. Chill 20 minutes.
HEAT oven to 350°F Fill each cookie with scant 1/4 teaspoon jam, jelly or preserves. Bake 11 to 13 minutes or until just golden around the edges.
For added sparkle, unbaked cookies may be rolled in coarse bakery sugar crystals before being placed on cookie sheet to chill.

Smucker's Jewel Box Cookies image

Provided by Ambitiousgrl Child

Categories Cookies

Time 35m

Number Of Ingredients 7

1 c plus 2 tbs all purpose flour
1/3 c sugar (splenda for sugar free)
1/2 c crisco baking sticks butter flavor
1 large egg yolk, beaten
1 Tbsp water
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 c smucker's preserves of choice (smuckers sugar free preserves for sugar free cookies)

Steps:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Combine flour and sugar in large bowl.
3. Cut in shortening with pastry blender or two knives until course crumbs form.
4. Add beaten egg yolk, water and vanilla. Mix until dough holds together.
5. Roll into small balls using half teaspoonfuls of dough. Place 1-inch apart on baking sheet. Make small indentation in center of each cookie. If the kids are helping with this step, ensure their thumb prints are large enough for the coming preserves.
6. Fill each indentation with scant 1/4 teaspoon preserves.
7. Bake 11 to 13 minutes or until just golden around the edges.
8. Allow to cool before eating these tantalizing little treats.

Jewel Box Cookies image

Provided by @MakeItYours

Number Of Ingredients 6

•1 cup plus 2 tablespoons Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour
•1/3 cup sugar
•1/2 cup butter, softened
•1 large egg yolk, beaten
•1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
•1/4 cup Smucker's® Cherry Preserves, or your favorite jam or preserves

Steps:

COMBINE flour and sugar in large bowl. Cut in butter with pastry blender or two knives until coarse crumbs form. Add beaten egg yolk and vanilla. Mix until dough holds together. 2SHAPE into small balls using half teaspoonfuls. Place 1-inch apart on cookie sheet. Make small indentation in center of each cookie. Chill 20 minutes.3HEAT oven to 350°F. Fill each cookie with scant 1/4 teaspoon jam, jelly or preserves. Bake 11 to 13 minutes or until just golden around the edges.TIPFor added sparkle, unbaked cookies may be rolled in coarse bakery sugar crystals before being placed on cookie sheet to chill.