Biscuits with jam are simple and delicious shortcrust pastry sweets , ideal to serve as a snack with a cup of tea, perhaps together with pinched biscuits or the classic bull’s eye . In this recipe we will prepare the dough with flour , butter , corn starch , granulated and brown sugar , salt and egg yolk, so as to obtain a soft pastry that does not break. We then made the biscuits by forming balls, which will be crushed with the bottom of a glass, then forming a flower with our fingers, to make them more delicious. The biscuits will then be cooked in the oven for 15 minutes and filled with jam , ready to serve. You can prepare these jam biscuits to enrich a tray of pastries together with many quick and delicious biscuits , to delight friends and relatives. Here are the steps to make them.

Ingredients
00 FLOUR
300 gr
BUTTER
225 gr
CASTER SUGAR
70 gr
BROWN SUGAR
70 gr
STARCH SAYS MORE
5 gr
EGG YOLK
1
SALE
1 pinch
FOR FILLING
STRAWBERRY JAM
q.b.
APRICOT JAM
q.b.
FOR THE SURFACE
POWDERED SUGAR
q.b.
How to prepare biscuits with jam

Step 1
Combine the flour with the cornstarch and a pinch of salt
1
.

Step 2
In another bowl, mix the butter to soften it
2
.

Step 3
Add the white sugar, the brown sugar, the egg yolk and continue mixing to combine the ingredients
3
.

Step 4
Also add the dry ingredients and knead to obtain a smooth and compact shortcrust pastry
4
.

Step 5
Make balls and place them on baking paper
5
.

Step 6
Crush each ball with a glass and make the shape of a flower by pressing with your fingertips
6
. Cook them in a preheated oven at 190°C for 15 minutes.

Step 7
Pour the jam onto the biscuits and place a ball of shortcrust pastry in the centre
7
, previously cooked in the oven with biscuits.

Step 8
Sprinkle icing sugar over the biscuits before serving
8
.

Advice
You can replace the strawberry and apricot jam with whatever you prefer, such as orange , blackberry or fig jam or with whatever jam you have available.

You can make biscuits in the shape you prefer, based on the occasion on which you want to serve them and your imagination, you can also use molds forming hearts instead of flowers, or make them however you like.

storage
You can store the biscuits with jam for about 5 days in a tin box or an airtight container. Alternatively you can freeze the dough for a few months.