Ingredients

• 3.5 cup - all - purpose flour + more for dusting the work surface and rolling pin
• 1/4 tsp - salt
• 1.5 cup - unsalted butter
• 1 cup - granulated sugar
• 1 tsp - vanilla essence
• 3/4 cup - raspberry jam or fruit jam of your choice
• Confectioner's sugar for dusting the cut-out cookies.

How to Make Shortbread Sandwich Cookies

• Preheat the oven to 180C.
• In a bowl mix together butter and sugar until they are just combined.
• Add the vanilla to it and mix it once.
• In another mixing bowl sift together the flour and salt, then add them to the butter and sugar mixture and combined well to make dough.
• Dump onto a surface dusted with flour and shape into a flat disk. Wrap in plastic and chill for 30 min.
• Roll the dough 1/4 inch thick and cut 2 3/4 inch rounds with a plain or fluted cutter.
• With 1/2 of the rounds, cut a hole from the middle of each round with a heart or round shaped cutter. Place all the cookies on an ungreased baking sheet and chill for 15 minutes.
• Bake the cookies for 10 to 15 minutes, until the edges begin to brown. Allow it to cool to room temperature.
• Spread the jam on the flat side of the cookies.
• Dust the top of the cut-out cookies with confectioner's sugar and press the flat sides together, with the jam in the middle and the confectioner's sugar on the top.
• Recipe courtesy: Jaisruchi