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Lemon Cookies with Jam&Walnuts Filling
I am sure everybody owns a handy citrus juicer – that plastic and simple tool which we’ve known since forever 🙂 Perhaps not many of us use it anymore, since today we find on the market all kinds of electrical devices that squeeze completely every fruit in about two seconds and with no effort from us. So, someone thought to give another function to this small plastic citrus squeezer, and she used it as a mold for delicious cookies like these. That clever person is believed to be a housewife in Turkey which unfortunately remained anonymous, but the idea was forwarded and I thought that maybe you’d be interested in it, so now I pass it forth.
Not everyone can afford to invest in sophisticated kitchen tools, molds and spring forms; but this juicer is extremely cheap and can be found at any store or hypermarket. You will amaze and delight your family and any guest with you these cookies. You can use for composition anything you like, I’ll show you the recipe that I have used and which yielded some crunchy, delicious cookies with a sublime balance between the dough and the filling.
Ingredients Lemon Cookies with Jam&Walnuts Filling
- 150 g soft butter
- 125 g confectioner sugar
- 10 grams of vanilla sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon of fresh lemon zest
- 350 g all purpose flour
- 3 g baking powder
- 200 g plum jam mixed with chopped walnuts for the filling
- 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar for dusting
Directions Lemon Cookies with Jam&Walnuts Filling
Preheat the oven at 185 Celsius. Prepare a baking tray and line it with parchment paper. Sift the flour with baking soda. Prepare the filling and put it into a bowl.
Mix butter, sugar, vanilla sugar, lemon zest and egg until homogenize, then add dry ingredients and knead the mixture until you get a soft, elastic and non-sticky dough.
Take the squeezing part of the juicer and grease it inside with some vegetable oil. Cut a generous piece of plastic wrap and insert it into the mold leaving the excess hanging over the edges (see in photos).
Divide the dough into small portions and give them a round shape of balls. Take each dough ball and insert it into the mold, form a cavity in the middle and press the dough to the mold walls to print those beautiful indentations.
Put a teaspoon of jam filling into the cavity and bring the edges of the cookie dough to the center to close the filling inside the cookie. Extract the cookie from the mold by grabbing the edges of the plastic foil and pulling them up (see the photos below).
Lemon Cookies with Jam&Walnuts Filling
Remove the wrap and put the cookie onto the baking tray. Proceed the same way with all the rest of the dough balls.
Put the tray into the oven and bake for about 15 minutes or until golden brown. When the cookies are done, take them out of the oven and let them cool completely. Dust them with powdered sugar and serve.
NOTES: Lemon Cookies with Jam&Walnuts Filling
- The filling must be enough thick and it should not soften too much during baking, because otherwise the cookies will loose their beautiful shape. I chose a thick plum jam and I added enough chopped walnuts to get a consistent filling. You can also use a mix of finely chopped dried fruits, Turkish delight, chocolate mixed with lots of chopped peanuts etc.
- The size of the cookies depends of the mold dimension. You should use a mold as small as possible, so the cookies are not too big. I got 16 cookies from this recipe.
- The flavors used for these cookies may vary by taste. You can use orange zest, rum, almond extract etc.
These cookies are so adorable!! How clever you are with the citrus juicer and it makes the perfect mold. I love plum jam too so trying that filling 🙂
Thank you so much, Karrie ❤ They are adorable indeed, that’s what I thought when I first saw them 🙂
I love the idea of using a citrus juicer as a mold! The cookies are so cute! And I can see that the juicer holds the dough just right while you are filling them with jam.
Sure, it worked perfectly as a cookie mold 🙂 They soften a little bit during the baking process but that may be ‘cause the cookies are quite tall and the dough itself (actually the butter in it) melted in the oven. But the result, as you see, is great 🙂 Thank you very much, Annemarie ❤
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