Meringue Sugar Cookies with Jam
User Reviews
4.8
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Prep Time
40 mins
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Cook Time
2 hrs
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Total Time
2 hrs 40 mins
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Servings
30 cookies
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Calories
182 kcal
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Course
Dessert, Baked Goods
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Cuisine
American
Meringue Sugar Cookies with Jam
Description
The dough is made from creamed butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and egg yolks, combined with baking powder and flour into a crumbly dough. It is rolled thin, cut into cookie shapes, and baked. Separately, egg whites are whipped with sugar into stiff meringue peaks and piped over the cookies in decorative patterns. The cookies are then baked at low heat for about two hours to set the meringue without browning. Once cooled, pairs of cookies are joined by spreading jam between them, creating sandwich cookies with contrasting textures.
This method produces cookies with a crisp cookie base and a light, sweet meringue topping, balanced by the fruitiness of the jam center. They require attention to baking time and temperature to achieve the ideal meringue texture.
Ingredients
- 200 g butter room temperature, unsalted
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 4 egg yolk
- 2 1/2 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 egg room temperature, white
- 1 1/2 cup white sugar Meringue
- 1 cup jam Filling
Instructions
- In a large bowl, whisk together butter, sugar, vanilla extract, and egg yolk.
- As soon as the mixture is smooth, add baking powder and flour in small portions. Mix together with a spatula or by hand. Dough will be a bit crumbly but that is perfectly OK.
- Using a standing mixer, beat together egg whites with sugar on high until you get stiff peaks. This should take about 10 minutes.
- Break off a part of the dough, cover it with plastic wrap and roll it out to 1/4 of an inch thickness.
- Using a cookie cutter, cut out the size of cookies based on your preference. Use a knife to lift each cookie onto a baking sheet.
- Place a tip inside a piping bag. Using a toothpick draw a line of color on the inside. Pipe out a shape of your preference on top of each cookie.
- Bake cookies at 200°F for about 2 hours. To check if the meringue is baked, tap it with a spoon to see if they make a hollow sound. Stick two cookies together by placing jam in the middle.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 30cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 182 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 182kcal | 9% |
| Carbohydrates | 30g | 10% |
| Protein | 2g | 4% |
| Fat | 6g | 9% |
| Saturated Fat | 4g | 20% |
| Cholesterol | 40mg | 13% |
| Sodium | 13mg | 1% |
| Potassium | 47mg | 1% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 19g | 38% |
| Vitamin A | 201IU | 4% |
| Vitamin C | 1mg | 1% |
| Calcium | 16mg | 2% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
User Reviews
Overall Rating
4.8
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