Oak Hill Country Club's Butter Tea Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 lb. soft butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon rind
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- raspberry apricot, or other flavored jam or fruit preserves
- 1/4 cup sliced almonds optional
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- In mixing bowl combine butter, sugar, vanilla, and lemon rind, Mix until smooth.
- Add flour to the butter mixture and mix until well combined.
- Scoop rounded tablespoons or use a mini ice cream scoop to form round balls of dough onto ungreased cookie sheet. Press a thumbprint into the center of each cookie and fill with your choice of flavored jam.
- Bake at 350° degrees for approximately 8-10 minutes or until just barely starting to turn golden brown on the bottom edges.
- Cool and decorate the the cookies with sliced almonds if desired.
- Sift powdered sugar on top of the cookies.
Notes
This recipe works best with jam or preserves, jelly is too runny and will not stay in the thumbprint while baking.
Cookies can be frozen for up to 3 weeks.