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Minnesota Cookies

Minnesota Cookies
This cookie recipe has been passed down through the women in my family.  They are called Minnesota Cookies and they are short bread cookies with jam filling.  Makes approx. 50 cookies.

You will need a cookie press to give your cookies the decorated finish!
 
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Step 1Make Dough

Make Dough
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Ingredients:
1 cup of butter (2 sticks)
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups of sugar
3 cups of flour
jelly or jam (flavor of choice)

non-food materials: cookie press - use star attachment

Mix butter, eggs, sugar, and vanilla together. Once smooth add in flour 1/2 a cup at a time.

When all the ingredients are mixed let the dough sit out for 15 minutes. In my experience this makes the dough firmer and the cookies chewier.
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9 comments
Oct 22, 2010. 3:43 PMNehemiahNesheim says:
These look bomb
Oct 9, 2010. 1:48 AMgreendayownseverything says:
How many grams are in a "cup"?
Sep 15, 2010. 11:36 AMPugofstardock says:
reminds me of the ones my family is making here in Germany
only they are flattened balls (to half the height) with an hole in the middle going about 50% of the depth filled with the jam
before the jam we coat the upper side with some stirred eg on it and dip them in almond slivers
Sep 15, 2010. 9:15 PMlukevn says:
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Sep 15, 2010. 6:03 PMDr Qui says:
They look like what we call Jammie dodgers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammie_Dodgers

One of those eat the whole packet biscuits, yours look like the type you would scoff the lot with a nice big cup of tea.
Sep 15, 2010. 3:00 PMchrisj55432 says:
I'm a Minnesota girl - 100% Swede. My mother always made Spritz cookies just like these at Christmas time, but she used egg yolks in place of whole egg, and lots of almond extract in place of the vanilla. Her recipe called for 3 egg yolks, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 teaspoons almond extract, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 2 1/2 cups flour. Everyone loved them, and I inherited her original cookie press. My kids really love them!
Sep 15, 2010. 2:43 PMSenior Waffleman says:
ooohhh, looks yummy

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