Description
Irresistible raspberry crumble cookies blend sweet fruit with buttery shortbread for a delightful dessert. Delicate cookie layers promise a perfect balance of tartness and richness that home bakers will adore.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup (227 grams / 8 oz) unsalted butter, softened
- 2 ¼ cups (280 grams / 10 oz) all-purpose flour
- ½ cup (120 milliliters / 4 fl oz) seedless raspberry jam
- ¼ cup (50 grams / 1.75 oz) granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup (40 grams / 1.4 oz) powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp almond extract
- ¼ tsp kosher salt
Instructions
- Preparation: Calibrate oven to 350°F and lubricate jumbo muffin pan with baking spray, ensuring comprehensive surface coverage.
- Mixing Base: Cream butter, powdered and granulated sugars, vanilla, and almond extracts until achieving a silky, aerated consistency with pale undertones.
- Dough Formation: Integrate flour and salt into the creamy foundation, manipulating until achieving a sandy, loose texture. Minimize dough manipulation to preserve delicate cookie structure.
- Cookie Molding: Distribute crumbly dough into muffin wells, strategically pressing to establish a sturdy base with slightly elevated borders, creating a natural jam reservoir.
- Jam Infusion: Precisely deposit raspberry jam at the center of each dough foundation, ensuring uniform placement and optimal jam-to-cookie ratio.
- Crumble Topping: Delicately scatter remaining crumble mixture across jam surface, generating a rustic, textured landscape that completely conceals the fruity underlayer.
- Baking Process: Position pan in preheated oven, monitoring until edges and surface acquire a warm, golden-brown complexion, approximately 20 minutes.
- Cooling and Extraction: Allow cookies to stabilize completely within the pan, then methodically release each morsel using a thin, flexible spatula.
Notes
- Butter Temperature Matters: Ensure butter is softened but not melted for optimal cookie texture and creamy consistency.
- Jam Selection Strategy: Choose high-quality raspberry jam with minimal seeds for smooth, rich flavor and better cookie appearance.
- Crumble Consistency Check: Mix dough until it resembles coarse sand; overmixing leads to tough, dense cookies that lack delicate crumble.
- Cooling is Crucial: Let cookies cool completely in the pan to prevent breaking, allowing the jam and crumble to set properly and maintain structural integrity.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 22 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 22
- Calories: 165
- Sugar: 6.5 g
- Sodium: 0.1 g
- Fat: 10.2 g
- Saturated Fat: 6.3 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3.9 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 19.4 g
- Fiber: 0.5 g
- Protein: 1.4 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg