Oh for the love of Jam!

Jam Jam JAM! The butterfly cakes went down quite well, but I discovered another 6 tiny jars of scottish preserves and so the quest for Jam recipes continues.

Let's be honest; our family is not a jam family. We're not even a toast or scone family. In fact, being Chinese, we are a strict rice family. My Dad eats rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Recently, however, my Dad has also become a health nut and has swapped our fluffly, fragrant jasmine rice for the dreaded low GI Basmati rice. For someone who loves the short grain sticky rice of Japanese and Korean food, the long, spindly and dry grains of Basmati are awful. It's not so bad though - there was period where our poor rice cooker was churning out Brown rice, Red rice, Wild Rice, Black rice, Millet and even Barley.

It's become a constant battle of jasmine vs. basmati rice in our household. But we've reached a compromise of mixed jasmine and basmati rice.

But where was I? Oh yes - Jam!

Anyhow, I whipped up this super easy and tasty, batch of Jam Drop Cookies. Or thumbprint butter cookies - they can be whatever you like.

Jam Drop Butter Cookies

Ingredients:
3/4 cup of butter, softened at room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups of plain flour
1/3 cup of jam that you love

Preheat Oven to 190 degrees celcius
1. Cream butter with sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Beat in eggs until combined.
3. Stir in flour until a soft dough is formed.
4. Roll into 2cm balls and place 3cm apart on a baking tray, and place in the fridge for 10mins.
5. Take out and form little holes for jam, using fingers, spoons or any other round pointy ended utensil.
6. Place teaspoonfuls of jam in the cavities.
7. Bake in oven for 8 - 10 minutes, until the edges are just beginning to brown. These cookies will turn out very white so don't worry if they seem undercooked at the end of 10 minutes - they aren't!

Eat a delicious soft, slightly crumbly, buttery cookie with a dollop a jam in the centre - yuum! Also these cookies are excellent for when you're feeling down - but also dangerously addictive. I inhaled like 3 in one go, and Jen was sneaking them past me as well :)

End of foundation exams coming up too. Trying to fit more study in these days, but it seems that whenever I start studying I get distracted by baking.

Ah well, at least it's tasty procrastination ;) God bless and good night.