Ah, it’s time for Christmas and Holiday baking! This year I am focusing on recipes that are generally quick and easy. Folks don’t have a lot of time, with everything that is happening, so quick is often what you need. This is a perfect recipe to start my holiday baking as it is ultimately flexible.
I love cookie cups, and I think they are perfect for the holidays. They are easy but they look quite fancy on a holiday cookie platter. When I made these, I had a couple of different Christmas preserves on hand, a spiced preserves flavored with port and also black currant jam. You can use anything that you have available, and this would work with any standard jam/preserves, as long as it is appropriately holiday colored!
For the cookie cups, this is the easiest recipe that you will find. Make the dough, shape it into balls, put it in the mini muffin cup, and you are done. You make the indentation in the cups after baking, which is quick. This recipe makes a lot of cookies, so keep that in mind! I hope that you enjoy making this cookie cups as much as I did.
1 cup butter, room temperature
1¼ cups sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2¾ cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
Christmas preserves
Powdered sugar
Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Spray a mini muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray.
In a large mixer bowl, combine the butter and sugar and beat on medium until light. Add the egg and vanilla and mix again to combine. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. With the mixer running on low, gradually add the flour mixture, stirring until the dough comes together.
Shape the dough into 1” balls and place in the prepared mini muffin tin.
Bake for 8-10 minutes, until golden. Once the cookies come out of the oven, make an indentation in each cookie with a https://findthelostkitchen.com/products/wooden-tart-tamper tart tamper or similar tool. Allow to cool for 10 minutes and then remove the cookie cups from the mini muffin pan.
Once cool, fill each cookie cup with preserves. Dust with powdered sugar.
Cookie cup recipe from Six Sisters’ Stuff
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