The best recipes for Christmas cookies with jam 6 times different! Get inspired

Do you like different types of jams?

Currant, strawberry, raspberry, apricot, cherry or orange.

You can use them all in our jam cookie recipes!

Glue, decorate and fill!

You will see that you will always be pleasantly surprised by the result!

Simple cookies with jam and nuts

A very tasty and visually unusual Christmas cookie that everyone will immediately fall in love with.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup flour
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 egg white
• 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup finely chopped walnuts
• 6 PL jams of your choice.

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 170°C.
2. In a bowl, beat the brown sugar, butter, vanilla and egg yolk.
3. Stir in the flour and salt.
4. Knead it into a dough, then shape it into balls with a diameter of approximately one centimeter.
5. Put the egg whites and nuts in two separate bowls.
6. Dip each ball in egg whites and then roll in walnuts.
7. Place the balls on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
8. Make a well in the center of each ball with your thumb.
9. Bake for approximately 13 minutes.
10. Allow the candy to cool, then place approximately half a teaspoon of marmalade in the center.

Classic Linnaeus with a colorful mix of jams

Do you glue the Liners with only one marmalade? It’s a shame, you’re needlessly depriving yourself of a variety of flavors and colors!

Ingredients:

• 2 and 1/2 cups plain flour
• 2/3 cup butter
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
• at least three different types of marmalade, for example currant, strawberry, apricot or orange
• powdered sugar for sprinkling

Method:

1. Mix sifted flour with baking powder and salt.
2. Using a mixer, beat the butter and sugar.
3. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition and scraping down the bowl as needed.
4. Add the vanilla extract.
5. Gradually stir in the flour mixture and mix until the dough comes together.
6. Divide the dough in half, wrap each part in cling film and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
7. Preheat the oven to 180°C and line two trays with baking paper.
8. Roll out the dough to a thickness of approximately half a centimeter.
9. Use cutters to cut various shapes from both parts of the dough, always the bottom and the top of the Linz candy.
10. Put the candy on the prepared trays and bake in the preheated oven for about 7-8 minutes until golden.
11. After cooling, glue the individual pieces using various types of marmalade.
12. At the end, sprinkle the cookies with jam with powdered sugar.

Pudding cookies with marmalade and chocolate

One of the most popular recipes for cookies with marmalade is the one in which the taste of marmalade is combined with the taste of vanilla and chocolate.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups plain flour
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 cups of butter
• 1-2 eggs
• 4 bags of vanilla pudding
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• marmalade of your choice
• chocolate topping

Method:

1. Mix sifted flour, sugar, baking powder and vanilla pudding in a bowl.
2. Using a hand mixer, beat the butter until fluffy, then add it to the dry ingredients.
3. Knead it into a dough, wrap it in cling film and put it in the fridge for at least an hour.
4. Then use a sugar machine to press down the dough and create four to six centimeter sticks.
5. Place the candy on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
6. Bake in an oven preheated to 180°C for approximately 10-13 minutes until golden. The baking time depends on the size of the sticks.
7. Leave the pastry to cool and then glue it together with the marmalade.
8. At the end, dip the cookies with jam on one side into the chocolate coating.
9. You can also sprinkle with garnish if you like.

Glued spoon cookies with jam

Confectionery, whose shape resembles the well-known “nuts”. Try this option as well.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups plain flour
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 cup of butter
• 1 egg yolk
• 3 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract
• marmalade of your choice

Method:

1. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over low heat.
2. Then remove it from the heat and let it cool in a separate bowl. If you don’t let it cool, the yolk will cook when you add it to the batter and the cookies won’t come together.
3. In a separate bowl, sift the flour and baking powder.
4. Add the yolk, sugar and vanilla to the clarified butter and beat.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the butter and egg mixture and mix until crumbly. If the mixture is too wet, add a little flour a spoonful at a time.
6. Preheat the oven to 160°C and line the trays with baking paper.
7. Use a tablespoon to scoop the batter, smooth and then tip, similar to scooping rice or ice cream.
8. Place the teaspoon cookies prepared in this way on a baking sheet.
9. Bake for 11-15 minutes until golden. The baking time depends on the size of the cookies.
10. Allow to cool and then always stick the two pieces together using marmalade.

Christmas spirals with jam

Tasty and light cottage cheese cookies with an unusual design.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 and 1/2 cups plain flour
• 200 g of cottage cheese or mascarpone
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1/3 cup marmalade
• icing sugar

Method:

1. Beat the butter and cottage cheese.
2. Mix in salt and sifted flour
3. Work into a dough and wrap in cling film.
4. Place in the refrigerator to cool for 30 minutes.
5. Roll out the cooled dough with a rolling pin into a thin layer.
6. Spread the marmalade on the top of the dough.
7. Roll the dough into a roll, cut the roll in half and chill in the fridge for 15 minutes.
8. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 170°C.
9. Line the trays with baking paper.
10. Then cut the cooled rolls with a sharp knife into approximately half a centimeter slices.
11. Bake for approximately 17-20 minutes.
12. After cooling, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Christmas cupcakes filled with jam

Marmalade can be used not only to glue, but also to fill. See for yourself with this recipe!

Ingredients:

• 2 cups plain flour
• 1 cup of butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1 cup raspberry, strawberry or cherry jam
• 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 170°C.
2. Beat the butter and sugar until foamy.
3. Stir in the egg and vanilla.
4. Add and mix in the sifted flour and baking powder.
5. Work into a dough.
6. Spoon the batter into the mini muffin tin.
7. Make a well in the center with your finger or thumb.
8. Put a teaspoon of jam in the hole.
9. Bake for approximately 10-12 minutes until the edges begin to brown.
10. Leave to cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Jam and Christmas baking

A variety of jams are most often used for gluing together the popular Linze sweets for Christmas cookies. But recipes for sweets with jam are much more diverse. It can be used for many other species, not only for gluing, but also for weeding. Those with intense flavors, such as currant, cherry or orange marmalade, are most often used. But you can use any one, it just depends on which one you like.

When baking, do not forget that marmalade is naturally sweet, so it is worth adding a little less sugar to the dough so that the result is not too sweet.