Valentine Cutie Pies

Little pies,  filled with jam,
Grandkids and children will 
love these handheld pies.
I used basic shortbread cookie
 recipe and filled 
them with my homemade 

raspberry jam.

I had seen a similar recipe of these made 
with piecrust, but I though they would taste
 so much better made with shortbread dough.

No kidding, they melt in your mouth good.

Ingredients

Basic shortbread dough.

2 cups flour

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup butter at room temperature

1/2 cup icing sugar (powdered sugar)

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Jam for filling.

Directions for making the dough

In a bowl whisk the flour with
 the salt, set aside.

With an electric beater or 
hand beater, beat the butter
until smooth (about 1 minute).

Add the icing sugar and 
beat until smooth (about 2 minutes)
Beat in the vanilla extract.

Gently stir in the flour mixture 
just until incorporated.

I used 1/2 of my dough
 for these Cutie Pies

Line two baking sheets
 with parchment paper.

On a lightly floured surface,

 roll out the dough until 
it is about 1/8 inch thick.

Cut out the cookies with

 a round cookie cutter. 
Divide the cut~out cookies into 2

Flatten the dough into a disk shape, 
wrap in plastic wrap, and 
chill the dough for at least an hour.
 and the other half I used for 
Valentine Sweet-Hearts

another cookies shown below,
 and cut the top ones with 
a small heart cookie cutter.

Knead the leftover scraps of dough

into a ball and roll out again.

Spread some jam on each of 

the cookie bottoms.

 (I use raspberry)

Set a cutout cookie on top of the bottom.

Press around the edges with

 a fork to seal them.

Place the unbaked cookies on

a baking sheet in the refrigerator

 for about 15 minutes.

This will firm up the dough so the

cookies will maintain their shape

when baking. 

Bake at 350deg.F for about 15-20 minutes

or until cookie edges are lightly browned.

I sprinkled some with powdered 

sugar/icing sugar.

I placed the small heart cookie cutter, 

covered with saran wrap,  

over the jam area

as not to get any powdered sugar on it.

Fun to make and oh so good....

To view my blog on, 

 Valentine Sweet~Hearts,
(shortbread cookies, 

filled with strawberry, 
raspberry, apricot and 
wild blueberry jam,) click here.

Thanks for your visit xo

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