Jam-Filled Mezzaluna Cookies

Name: Jam-Filled Mezzaluna Cookies
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 14
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters seedless raspberry or blackberry jam; 118 milliliters thinly sliced blanched almonds; 1 egg white; 2 Tbsps granulated sugar, plus more for sprinkling; 355 milliliters pastry flour, plus more for dusting; 1 Tbsp pure vanilla extract

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Jam-Filled Mezzaluna Cookies a try. This recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This dairy free and vegetarian recipe has 114 calories, 3g of protein, and 3g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 14. A mixture of , pas

Instructions

In a bowl, whisk the 1 1/2 cups of pastry flour with the 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar.

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Granulated Sugar

Pastry Flour

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Whisk

Bowl

Add the butter and, using a pastry blender, your fingers or 2 dinner knives, blend the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles coarse meal.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Sprinkle on the vanilla and knead gently until a dough forms. Pat the dough into a disk, wrap in plastic and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled, at least 1 hour.

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Vanilla

Dough

Wrap

Preheat the oven to 35

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Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper and refrigerate.

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Cut the dough into 4 pieces. Working with 1 piece at a time and leaving the rest in the refrigerator, roll out the dough 1/8 inch thick on a lightly floured work surface. Using a 4-inch round biscuit cutter, stamp out as many rounds as possible; gather and reserve the scraps.

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Brush the edges of each round with some of the egg white. Spoon 1 rounded teaspoon of jam onto one half of each round, leaving a 1/4-inch border; fold the other half over to enclose the jam. Using the tines of a fork, press the edges together to seal.

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Egg Whites

Jam

Transfer the mezzalune to one of the chilled baking sheets, spacing them 2 inches apart. Repeat with the remaining 3 pieces of dough and filling, then repeat with the gathered scraps. Refrigerate the mezzalune for at least 10 minutes.

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Dough

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Brush the mezzalune with egg white, sprinkle with granulated sugar and top with a generous sprinkling of sliced almonds.

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Granulated Sugar

Sliced Almonds