Best Strawberry Jam Tarts Cookies Recipes

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Provided by PaulaM11

Time 1h10m

Yield 24

Number Of Ingredients 6

Steps:

Mix flour, shortening, sugar, and salt together in a food processor until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add water and mix until a ball is formed. Refrigerate pastry until well chilled, at least 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 24 shallow muffin cups.
Roll pastry out thin; cut into rounds with a cookie cutter. Place each round in a muffin cup. Add 2 teaspoons of jam to each cup.
Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 20 minutes. Cool tarts on a wire rack.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 152.2 calories, Carbohydrate 17.6 g, Fat 8.7 g, Fiber 0.4 g, Protein 1.1 g, SaturatedFat 2.2 g, Sodium 101.5 mg, Sugar 7 g

Strawberry Jam Tart Cookies image

Provided by Kelly Williams

Time 55m

Number Of Ingredients 12

2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
2/3 cup butter
1 large egg
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
2 Tbl. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
*strawberry preserves or jam
*colored sugar, optional
*melted white, milk or dark chocolate, optional
*candy silver balls or other candy decorations, optional

Steps:

1. Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and beat. Add milk and vanilla. Add rest of ingredients and mix well. Roll out dough to 1/8" thick. Cut the dough with solid shape cookie cutters such as hearts, christmas trees, etc. With very small cookie cutter of same shape, cut out centers of half of the shapes. (The outside edge pieces go on top of the solid shapes). Gather up bits of cut-out centers and roll out again, repeating til all dough is used up. Place whole shapes onto ungreased cookie sheet. Top each cookie center with a teaspoons or so of strawberry jam. (Or flavor(s) of your choice.) Place cookie shape with cut-out center on top. Seal outside edges all the way around with tines of fork. Pressing to seal. Decorate as you like such as sprinkling edges with colored sugar. Press little candy silver balls at intervals around inside edge evenly, if desired. Bake in 350° oven for 11-13 minutes. These do not brown. When cool, other decorating options are to sprinkle them with powdered sugar or drizzle with melted chocolate. Just have fun! :D Enjoy!