Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese and Jam Roulade

By MJH

Ingredients

• Sugar Cookie Base:
• 1 Cup butter, softened
• 1 Cup granulated white sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 cups all purpose flour
• Filling:
• Cream Cheese
• Jam of choice

Details

Adapted from eatpastry.bolgspot.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350° F.
In the bowl of your mixer cream butter and sugar until smooth.
Beat in extracts and egg.
In a separate bowl combine baking powder with flour and add a little at a time to the wet ingredients. The dough will be very stiff. If it becomes too stiff for your mixer turn out the dough onto a countertop surface.
Wet your hands and finish off kneading the dough by hand.
DO NOT CHILL THE DOUGH.
Divide into workable batches, roll out onto a floured surface into a long rectangular shape.


Use a butter knife to coat the dough with cream cheese.
Then slather on the jam.
Roll the dough into a roulade (as pictured).
Then slice individual pieces to make the cookies.
Bake at 350 F for about 10 minutes and let cool on baking sheet.