Jam Jams

This recipe is the best one I have found for taste and texture. I make them for Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, and Thanksgiving using cookie cutters to match the occasion. This recipe is in the From Oma's Kitchen Cookbook.

1 cup / 250 ml butter

1 cup / 250 ml brown sugar

2 eggs

1/3 cup / 75 ml corn syrup

1 tsp / 5 ml vanilla

4 cups / 1 L flour

2 tsp / 10 ml baking soda

½ tsp / 2 ml salt

½ cup / 125 ml milk

Cream the butter and sugar together. Add eggs and beat well. Mix in syrup. Sift flour with baking soda and salt. Add to batter gradually with milk to make stiff dough. Chill 4 to 24 hours. Roll out thin using as much flour as necessary. Cut with the cookie cutters of the desired shapes. Cut a small hole design in every second cookie. Cookies should be about 1 ½ to 2 inches in diameter.

Bake @ 375EF (190EC) 10 minutes or until light brown.

Cool, spread with your favorite jam and stick two cookies together, one with and one without a hole in it. Place in containers and freeze. When serving dust with icing sugar.