Jam Sandwiches

Name: Jam Sandwiches
Yield: Makes about 30 cookies
Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour (12 1/2 ounces/354 grams); 3/4 cup, superfine sugar, (5 1/2 ounces/156 grams); 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 16 tablespoons, unsalted butter (2 sticks), cut into sixteen 1/2-inch pieces, at cool room temperature (about 65 degrees); 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 2 tablespoons, cream cheese, at room temperature; 2 tablespoons, turbinado sugar, Demerera, or white decorating sugar; 1 1/4 cups, raspberry jam (12 ounces/340 grams), strained, simmered until reduced to 1 cup, and cooled to room temperature

Desserts or Baked Goods
Cookies

Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2003

Rolling out cookie dough is a sticky business. Most recipes add excess flour, and the resulting cookies are tough. Could we make tender, crispy cookies that roll out easily?

SERVES Makes about 30 cookies

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 20 minutes cooling and 30 minutes setting

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