I’m pretty sure it’s still Friday somewhere in the world right? Planning fail again XD One of these days I’ll get myself properly organised!
So today’s Food Friday is James’ Jam Drop recipe which I will steal and claim as my own >:D Mine didn’t actually turn out half as nice as his but oh well!
You need:
- 130g butter, softened
- 112g (1/2 cup) caster sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1 large egg
- 2 tablespoons cornflour
- 3 tablespoons self-raising flour
- 150g (1 cup) plain flour
- Jam for filling and then any decorations you want
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Stick the butter in a mixing bowl.
 Add the suger and vanilla essence.
 Have an argument with your boyfriend over whether a couple of grams extra will *really* ruin the entire batch of cookies… Seriously James is ridiculously particular with his measuring.
Try not to stab him with your butter knife when he insists on spending 20min finding new batteries for his electric scale to get the measurements perfect.
Whip it with an electric beater until it starts getting fluffy and the butter gets a little lighter.
Add in the egg…
And the food colouring…
Whip it again and until it’s fairly fluffy.
The recipe here differs depending on who you are… If you are James then: take forever finding a clean bowl and sift all the flours together making sure to mix thoroughly. Add it to the cookie mixture and mix until it forms a dough. If you are Violet: get bored looking for a clean bowl and start dumping the flours into the current bowl, sifting is for suckers and people who don’t want to get some crafting done tonight too! Finally dig out a sifter half way through because of the look James is giving you. Sift it all into the bowl and mix until it forms a dough.
Stick the bowl into the fridge for 20 min to cool, when you get it out again it should be easy to roll into small balls and put on a baking papered tray. I used the 20min to go to the 7/11 and procure chocolate, but you should use yours for preheating your oven t0 180 degrees Celsius 😀 It probably wasn’t actually 20min because my dough was still fairly soft. I was impatient to finish and sit down after having walked most of the day so I ignored the instructions 😀
Aaaanyway poke your thumb into the middle of them so it forms a little well for the jam.
Then spoon in some jam! This is my favorite one, it’s strawberry and rose petal.
I decorated mine with some of those little sugar balls that I can never remember the name of.
Finally, stick them in the oven for 15minutes or until they look cooked. Interestingly enough it wasn’t the lack of precise measuring that killed my cookies… it was my being distracted by watching Xmen First Class and forgetting they were in the oven hahaha!
So mine were a little crispier than usual but still very delicious!! Be careful if you put in too much jam they will boil over. Also be VERY careful when you take them out because the jam will be liquidy and very hot so don’t burn yourself!
Still very yummy but I’ve decided to leave these to James and perhaps retitle this section from Food Friday to “Violet Sucks At Baking… Mostly Out Of Laziness And Lack Of Allocating Enough Time”. Catchy yes? I can totally make a Violet Sucks At Baking icon 😉
If you’re curious, they did actually taste the same as James’ version just a little browner 😉
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