30 Nov
We are one day away from December and this past weekend has thrown me completely into Christmas mode. To be honest, it really doesn’t take much, but two days of Black Friday shopping and a few Christmas carols, and I am ready to dive head first into the shopping, gift wrapping, and holiday baking. My grandma has made empire cookies around the holidays for as long as I can remember, and they have always been one of my favorites. My loving them is a bit surprising since I usually prefer rich desserts, but I can never get enough of the buttery shortbread-type cookies with jam sandwiched between them and topped with a simple icing. I can’t believe they haven’t been on the site prior to this, so I’m thrilled to share them with you. Let the holiday baking begin!
I love coloring the icing to reflect the festive season, so these are topped with red icing. I didn’t have green food coloring or I would have used that as well. You could always use the regular white icing plain, or top the white icing with red and/or green sprinkles.
You can use your favorite type of jam in these cookies and while I typically use raspberry jam, I was able to try a set of Crofter’s Superfruit Spreads recently and used the South America spread, which is Maqui berries and passionfruit blended with red grapes and morello cherries. This stuff is seriously good. So good. These spreads are 100% organic and include four unique fruit combinations from different regions of the world and are sweetened with fair-trade sugar. The variations include:
♦ Asia – Raspberries and yumberries blended with morello cherries and red grapes.
♦ Europe – Pomegranates and black currants blended with red grapes and morello cherries.
♦ North America – Wild cranberries and blueberries blended with red grapes and morello cherries.
♦ South America – Maqui berries and passionfruit blended with red grapes and morello cherries.
These spreads are perfect for any recipe that calls for your favorite jam, and will liven up your breakfast toast or PB&J sandwich.
I love these spreads and love that the company was founded by an immigrant family, so I’m thrilled to give away sets of Crofter’s Superfruit Spreads to TWO lucky readers, who will be selected at random. Each set includes the four spreads pictured and described above. The giveaway guidelines:
Deadline: Wednesday, December 3, 2009 11:59pm EST
Required: Your email address. You must fill out the email address portion of the comment form (it will not be published) or I will not be able to contact you should you win.
Restrictions: Due to shipping restrictions, this giveaway is only for those with U.S. and Canada mailing addresses. My apologies to international readers!
How to Enter: It’s simple! Leave a comment on this post and answer the following question: What is your favorite recipe using jam?
For an Extra Entry: Tweet about this giveaway, post about it on your blog, or post about it on Facebook. Then come back and leave a link to your Tweet, blog post, or Facebook post for a possible 3 extra entries.
Good Luck!
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The giveaway is now closed and the two winners have been selected by Random.org.
Congratulations to commenter #61, Jennifer! Her favorite recipe using jam:
“my favorite recipe with jam has to be caramelized onions. you cook some little pearl onions in a couple teaspoons of Currant jam/jelly, among other things…unfortunately I’m blanking on what else goes in there, oops! but anyway, they’re SO GOOD. I love having them as part of a holiday meal.”
And congratulations to commenter #218, Annie! Her favorite recipe using jam:
“I love Italian plum crostata. The recipe uses my parents’ backyard plums . Because there is an overbundance, and we are unable to eat them all at once, my Mom makes plum jam which she uses in the recipe.“
Empire Cookies
Yield: About 4 dozen
For the Cookies:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 stick (4 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
½ cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup of your favorite jamFor the Icing:
1 cup powdered sugar
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 Tablespoon milk1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mat; set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk flour and baking powder; set aside.
3. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Beat in the egg and vanilla extract. On low speed, beat in the flour mixture just until combined.
4. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a little less than ¼-inch thick. Using a 1¾-inch round or fluted cookie cutter, cut out rounds. Place about one inch apart on prepared baking sheets. Bake for 8-10 minutes, just until the edges start to color. Watch closely, as they can get too dark rather quickly! Transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
5. Spread bottom side of half of the cookies with about ¼ teaspoon of jam. Top with remaining cookies.
6. To make icing, whisk together the powdered sugar, vanilla extract and milk, adjusting the milk and powdered sugar to reach the desired consistency. Spread over the tops of the cookies. Let stand until icing is completely dry. Cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature.
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these look awesome!
So yummy! I’m still waiting for the chance to try a jam recipe but my favorite flavor is strawberry, unless one of these change my mind!
I like raspberry jam bars. Mmm….
Honestly – I’ve never really cooked with it. But, if I win, I’ll definitely try out some different recipes.
I would have to say rugala cookies with rasberry jam.
Thumbprint Cookies!
I also tweeted about it!
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My favorite Christmas cookie using jam is raspberry jam shortbread thumbprints. MMmmm I can taste them now! A co-worker once ate 15 of them in a row. I <3 Christmas.
They look yum, would go great with espresso!
These all sound super yummy!
I love making window cookies (jam in the window type cookies)….they are so cute and yummy!
Homemade apricot on leg o’lamb.
Or homemade elderberry/grape on homemade bread.
Must I really choose?
Homemade plum on piecrust scraps feels soooo left out!
Cute cookies! Though I try not to use food colourings, I still do when I bake French macarons. And if I want them fast, I definitely use fruit spread in there instead of making a ganache
‘Jam-Jams’ & thumbprint cookies YUM
My favorite thing to bake with jam is hazelnut linzer tart. These look delicious.
Peach muffins using spiced peach preserves! Thanks for the giveaway!
What a great giveaway! My favorite recipe using jam is linzer tart cookies filled with raspberry jam. Delish!
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I make a cupcake with a rasberry jam center that is really yummy!
I like to put jam in my pancake batter. Your cookies are so pretty though. Makes me want to bake some.
My favorite recipe using jam is Dorie Greenspan’s Perfect Party cake with Raspberry preserves. yummy!!!
Hope I win ~ your cookies are so cute!
Your cookies are so cute and those spreads sound wonderful! Love the labels!
I’d have to say coffee cake!
Peanut butter sandwiches, what else!
I have to go along with the shortbread thumbprint type of cookie. Love the buttery, sandy cookie with the sweet jam. Apricot and raspberry are my favorites!
My favorite recipe using jam are the Barefoot Contessa’s peanut butter and jelly bars. I made them for my brother all the time while he was living in the dorms at school nearby!
Yammy!! Beautiful and delicious (for sure!) as always!!
My favorite are White Cornmeal Thumb Print Cookies. Last time I made them I used some cherry preserve and plum jam that a friend of ours made! YUM!
I’m in early Christmas mode too. Love the colors of these cookies!
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I blogged about your post too!
I love the Raspberry Strippers from Cooking Light — they are so melt-in-your mouth perfect!!
I love my mom’s jam thumbprint cookies. They are like a shortbread cookie with a thumb indent for raspberry jam!
I like to mix seedless jam into my buttercream to create a fresh, fruity flavor!
I think my favorite recipe using jam would be those thumbprint cookies. lol. Simple but yummy!
I like to make thumb print cookies using jam.
my favorite recipe with jam is the barefoot contessa’s mini linzer cookies. soooo yummy.
yummmmmmmmy ! looks great!
I really like to make tarts with a cream cheese-jam filling. Raspberry is my current fave. Thanks for the giveaway!
My mom’s Ice Cream Kolachy are my absolute favorite cookie. I have wonderful childhood memories covered in flour rolling the dough while standing on a kitchen chair.
I love using a cinnamon roll recipe but using orange marmalade as the filling. It’s delicious!
Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
That jam looks incredibly yummy! I love to make homemade granola bars with a layer of jam in the middle.
My favorite recipe using jam is Peanut Butter and Jelly bars. Last time I made a batch for my daughter to take to a party, I came very close to keeping them for myself instead!
One of my favorite recipes is with jam are raspberry chocolate crumb bars full of delicious goodness like sweetened condensed milk! I think experimenting with these jams for the bars would be a flavor journey.
Thumbprint cookies with raspberry jam!
My favorite recipe is a cookie called Jewel Brooches … kind of like a jam thumbprint cookie, but the dough is much more buttery and delicious, and they’re tiny. So good!
White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake is my favorite with jam recipe.
I like butter cookies and you can put a drop of jam in the middle.
Does toast with jam count? Maybe one of my favorite breakfast items of all time (peach or apricot being the best, with blackberry at a close second). If not, then pork tenderloin with apricot glaze…yum.
My favourite way to use jam in cookies is still the old fashioned thumb print cookies with a dob of jam in them!
I love using no sugar added raspberry jam with balasmic vinegar as a salad dressing for chicken spinach salad – yum!
If we are not taking recipe though, spoonfuls directly from the jar are the best way to enjoy Crofters!
My favorite recipe for using jam is my Christmas cookie, which I will be making this year.
My favorite recipe is a sour cream raspberry bread. I love raspberry jam!
My favorite to use jam is to make a crostrata, filled with jam. it is easy and looks great on a holiday table.
My mom and I make these awesome rainbow cookies that have apricot jam in them. They are green, pink, and yellow and covered in chocolate. They are pretty awesome and always make an appearance during the holidays!
Sadly I don’t have the recipe itself, but my favorite “jam food” is my grandmother’s rolled cookies with short pastry and handmade jam – they were beautiful and so scrumptious!
Oatmeal with a little bit of strawberry or raspberry jam stirred in
Favorite recipe using jam is a raspberry cream cheese bar. Oh, now I’m getting hungry! Thanks for the great giveaway
I love thumbprint cookies! They are so yummy! I also really enjoy making grilled peanut butter & jam sandwiches…sounds wierd, but SO delish!
My favorite “recipe” is homemade jam on hot buttered toast. Yum!
Thumbprint cookies. Seedless raspberry jam!
Toast and butter with strawberry works too.
Yummi-licious!!! Look fantastic. My fav is rainbow cookies!!
my favorite recipe with jam has to be caramelized onions. you cook some little pearl onions in a couple teaspoons of Currant jam/jelly, among other things…unfortunately I’m blanking on what else goes in there, oops! but anyway, they’re SO GOOD. I love having them as part of a holiday meal.
These jams look delicious as do the cookies. I love to mix jams into yogurt and make my own fruit flavored yogurt. I also love any type of cookie that uses jam. Mmmmmmmm!
Oh my gosh, the spreads and the cookies look yummy!! I use a roasted onion and garlic jam along with goat cheese to make the most wonderful grilled pizza.
I like to make a Raspberry Chocolate Nut Bar using raspberry jam, shortbread bottom, meringue-like topping (because it has egg whites in it) with chocolate & nut layers. You only need a very small bar because it’s too rich. What a fun & useful giveaway! Thanks
glazing chicken in orange marmalade before throwing on the grill in the summer, and smearing between layers of scone dough before baking in the winter. jam = love.
cheers,
*heather*
absolutely love Pineapple preserves on salmon….
Wow, those look great! I love using jam for Linzer bars and with balsamic vinegar on chicken.
I like making linzer cookies with red current jam. Delish!
not entering the contest, but thanks for the recipe – have never heard of empire cookies before now….
It’s technically not jam but there is a great appetizer recipe that calls for apple butter. ::drool::
You take crostini and top it with apple butter and a slice of brie. Melt the brie and top with a sliver of smoked ham. The salty and the sweet and the brie . . . yum! It’s to DIE for!
Grilled peanut butter and jelly!
Good ole’ PB &J sammie!
Thumbprint cookies!
thanks so much this looks wonderful
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It has already been said, but thumbprint cookies it is !
I know it’s not original, thumbprint cookies. The empire cookies look really good, so I might have to try them.
I love homemade pop-tarts, with strawberry jam especially
It’s not much of a recipe but jam with nut butter on toast or in my oatmeal is my favorite!
I love to keep it simple…make some homemade bread and spread jam on it…..the best!
Enjoy!
Blackberry jam or cranberry compote – yum!
these cookies look so good! for some reason, it reminds me of wooden toy soldiers. must be that red icing! I can’t wait to try these. I usually make jam thumbprint cookies… but this is a nice variation. buttery cookie with jam… and icing to “theme” it to the holidays! amazing!
I love pb&j’s, but I also like to use jam to make salad vinaigrettes.
I like to make cake but put jam inbetween the layers instead of frosting, it’s a wonderful surprise
As boring as it is, my favourite recipe is a good peanut butter and jam sandwich. Yum!
Mmm… I’m so excited for Christmas cookies. My favorite jam recipe is stuffed french toast filled with ricotta and rhubarb jam.
Very nice giveaway! I made some sesame cookies a few months ago that had some jam in the middle, they were yum!
chocolate raspberry cake
Rugelach! Oh, how I love rugelach!
Thumbprint cookies!
I love cocktail meatballs. unconventional sweet usage all the way!
Crofters is a truly unique jam. We tried it for the first time over Thanksgiving and everyone loved it. We love to put a little jam at the bottom of our custard. Flip out after baking and the warm jam melts all over the custard! Comforting and fanciful in one dessert.
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Stained Glass cookies are my favorite.
I like to make bars with jam in the middle, strawberry, apple and blackberry ones!
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Peanut butter sandwiches have kept me from going hungry on many occasions! The North American version sounds like it would be especially delicious with peanut butter, but I would of course try them all.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Peanut butter and jelly bar are my FAVORITE, and you can use any flavor that tickles your fancy!!
I love to make raspberry oatmeal bars with raspberry jam. Or thumbprint cookies!
a simple butter cookie similar to this w/ a “thumbprint” filled w/ jam and than a bit of vanilla or almond glaze drizzled on top.
yummmm.
i love to make strawberry jam omlettes. when the omlette is almost done, u put a big spoon of jam in the middle and fold in on the side . the jam will become runny n gooey.soooo good
Peanut butter thumbprint cookies with strawberry or raspberry jam are my favorite, but I definitely want to try your recipe. Thanks for a chance at the giveaway!
Thumbprint cookies are my fave.
White chocolate raspberry cheesecake
oh wow those look great! My gram made ones that looked like little empanadas with jam in them – yummy!
I love anything with raspberry jam. In particular I make a wicked raspberry coconut bar that gets gobbled up around here!
yum! i have to go with thumbprint cookies…an oldie but goodie!
I’m new to this whole cooking/baking thing but am soo looking forward to cooking with jam! My grandmother used to make the best sour cherry jam with the sour cherries from our backyard when I was growing up!
What cute cookies!
I really just enjoy jam best on toast! I’m boring
Toast, whole wheat with butter and homemade jam…..
I have an amazing recipe for chocolate-strawberry bundt cake using strawberry jam…made it sooo light and really moist. YUM!
I use grape jam in my spaghetti sauce and meatballs in grape jam and Hienz 57 sauce is good too.
I don’t bake with jam all that often. The only thing that comes to mind are thumbprint cookies… Although there’s some inspiration from the comments above mine, especially about grape jam in spaghetti sauce. Kelly Ann — how did you think of that, and what does it add to the sauce??? (I’m so curious about this one!)
I love thumbprint cookies! And I suppose I could make them at other times of the year, but they seem to appear only at Christmas. Thanks for a great giveaway.
Raspberry or strawberry jam in peach melba!
Raspberry oatmeal bars!
Mine is my grandma’s rugelach recipe. She uses finely chopped fruits but also jams to make a smooth yet textured rugelach filling. Hope I win, I’ll share with her!
I like to make Thumbprint Cookies. They are so colorful and perfect for Xmas. Plus the kids love to help make them.
I also like to make an appetizer in my crockpot using jam, bbq sauce and a bag of frozen meatballs. It gets raves at parties. Great giveaway, thanks!
Actually my favorite jam is probably the easiest–Strawberry Freezer jam but I also love to make Apple Butter in the crock pot as well. Wonderful giveaway and thanks for the chance.
Those cookies LOOK yummy!!! I do wonder if there is a way to make them peanut butter and have a yummy peanut butter and jelly like sandwich cookie! YUM!
I love jam thumb print cookies! So nice for the holidays!
Hot jam sandwiches! It’s basically a jam sandwich that you dip in egg and fry like french toast. So good!
I love making hazelnut thumbprints with red raspberry jam! Another staple in my house is cream cheese and jelly sandwiches.. talk about comfort food
Mmmm, mmmm jam!!
I don’t use jam much for cooking, but I do have a really yummy salad with jerk chicken recipe that uses pineapple jam in the dressing.
I like to use jam to make thumbprint cookies, but these certainly look yummy!
I love using jam in my swiss meringue buttercream. Not exactly a recipe, but it compliments so many yummy cakes!
Thumbprint cookies with strawberry jam
I hope that PB + J counts as a recipe. It honestly is my favorite use of jam.
My fav is peanut butter cookies with grape jam centers!
Well, I haven’t actually tried it yet, but I’m planning to soon – donut muffins with jelly/jam centers!
I have two favorite recipes using jam. The first are star shaped Christmas cookies with red currant jam or seedless red raspberry jam sandwiched between them. The second are double ginger scones with peach jam (homemade of course). I recently received a jar of Burnt Fig jam from Australia and am loving that heated and poured over ice cream!
I love to make PB & J cookies. I first made these for my best friend. She & I were known as the PB & J girls in college so I decided to make her these yummy double-layered heart shaped peanut butter cookies with grape jelly sandwiched in between.
I love to bake Raspberry Bars – shortbread cookies sandwiched with raspberry seedless jam then dusted with powdered sugar. Yum! Second runner-up is Apricot Dots – same concept but round cookies with apricot jam.
I make a strawberry tart and I use Strawberry jam as the glaze over the strawberries. yummy!!!
Not necessarily a ‘recipe’…but definitely peanut butter and jam on toast
Yum, I love raspberry jam bars.
I’ve honestly never cooked with jam but i hav with orange marmalade which I assume is close. They were these wonderful bars made out of sugar cookie dough, orange marmalade, drizzles with chocolate and nuts, so yummy. I believe it was a g
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Giada recipe
Does toast count as a recipe? Ok well I like it on homemade bread, is that better?LOL
Shorty
I love thumbprint cookies!
Love your cookies! They are gorgeous. I like to make almond bars with raspberry jam! Yum!
I love using apricot, peach and pineapple jams to do a sweet and spicy glaze for meats like chicken or shrimp! So tasty and what a nice giveaway!
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I like thumbprints…peanut butter cookie with jam thumbprint!
I love strawberry shortbread cookies!
my favorite recipe is the simplest recipe… I love adding jam to my plain yogurt for an afternoon snack. Simple and delicious.
My grandmother’s nut tortes with warmed apricot jam spread between the layers to help keep them moist or her sweet rolls filled with any jam she had on hand.
Thumbprint butter cookies w/ Smuckers Seedless Raspberry jam are my absolute favorite – I make them at Christmas AND also as a Valentines Day treat for my honey
Oh, I love how modern-looking and festive these cookies are! So smart and delicious.
Raspberry Almond Thumbprint cookies…yum!
My favorite recipe using jam is not so much a recipe as a combination: baked brie covered with apricot jam. Yummm
These look awesome, and I think I might just have to give them a try. But my hands-down favorite recipe with jam is raspberry-walnut baked brie. Mmmmm…
Your cookies look so pretty. Linzer cookies are my favorite thing to make with jam.
Normally I would say jam thumbprints but on my blog a little bit ago I made Fangbite Cookies filled with homemade strawberry rhubarb jam and they were delicious.
Peanut butter cookies w/raspberry jam!! yummy…
My favorite jam recipe is simple. Take 8oz of cream cheese roll it out between sheets of plastic wrap. Spread jam. Roll it up and serve with crackers. Mmmmmm good!
My favorite jam recipe is simple. Roll out 8oz of cream cheese between sheets of plastic wrap. Spread jam. Roll up and serve with crackers. Mmmmmm good!
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Thumbprint cookies and homemade peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Nothing beats grinding peanuts and boiling down fresh berries for a snack.
My favorite recipe with jam is putting it in vanilla ice cream!!!!!! It gives it a little something extra that regular ice cream mix ins do not do!!!!!
These sound like a fabulous combination. One of my favorite jam treats is a raspberry cheesecake bar with a shortbread crust. Oh so yummy!
My favorite recipe using jam is linzer cookies of course, and Swedish pancakes!
These look so good!
I adooooreee linzer cookies/tarts! They are sooo delicious!
favorite recipe; these christmas martha stewart pinwheel cookies that called for raspberry jam. they rocked!
Oooo I’d love some Crofter’s Jam! Thumbprint Cookies for sure! Or PB/Jam in my oatmeal
My favorite recipe using jam is actually an appetizer…there is nothing I love more than brie cheese covered in apricot or raspberry jam with a side of some sort of crackers. It’s so easy but so delicious!
My favorite recipe using jam is jam with peanut butter in between two slices of bread! it’s yummyyyy.
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Those cookies look delicious. I like to use jam when I make jelly cakes.
I love making peanut butter thumb print cookies, with all sorts of different flavored jams. I hope I win. They all sound sooooo yummy!!!!
I love thumbprint cookies! December always makes me think of how my sister and I used to make them every year for our neighborhood’s holiday cookie exchange party.
you’re cookies looks funny
thank you 
my favorite recipe using jam(usally raspberry) is linzer cookies! great giveaway!
My favorite recipe is oatmael jam bars.
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My absolute favorite jam recipe is so simple. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are my favorite comfort food. No matter how I’m feeling, a peanut butter with strawberry jam sandwich makes me smile
I am SALIVATING. Those jams sound DELISH. I’d use them in my mother-in-law’s recipe for apricot thumbprint cookies – just sub them in for the apricot jam she usually uses. And also just spread them on toast, of course
my favorite jam recipe is to use a berry jam over prok tenderloin and roast it. Then add some chicken stock and make gravy to put on top at the table.
I’m rather simple – my favorite “recipe” using jam is topping a wheel of brie with jam, then wrapping it in puff pastry and baking it. Best if served with sliced pears. Yum!
My favorite all time jam/jelly recipe is just a PB & J on rye with seedless blackberry jam. The runner up would be homemade jelly doughnuts any delicious filling will do.
raspberry jam crumble bars!
I love when people use jam between cake layers!
I love these cookies !
My favorite recipe with jam is biscuit sablé with a hole in the center for the jam!
By the way, your blog is awesome
These look delicious…there must be hundreds of ways to use them…thank you for the opportunity!!
giveaway entry. Love it!
Ohhhh, Deb’s raspberry breakfast bars from Smitten Kitchen: http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/09/raspberry-breakfast-bars/. Yummmm
If I’m being honest here, my absolute favorite would have to be peanut butter and jam sandwich!
My grandma’s jelly roll!
I love using starwberry jam in a jam bars recipe with granola and sugar topping.
Nothing can beat a pb and j with really good jam!!! And a tall glass of cold milk. Mustache included!
Favorite recipe using jam is a sloppy joe that includes grape jam! So yummy!
My favorite recipe is a gingersnap cookie sandwich with raspberry jam inside!
I loooooove thumbprint cookies! Especially when you have a really great jam, the thumbprint cookie always seems to heighten the flavors. Great giveaway – thank you!
I love thumbrint cookies!!! : )
This is SUCH A GREAT giveaway.
Yum! For me, it’s a tossup between Bakewell Tart and Sachertorte.
I just tweeted about your contest here: http://twitter.com/davisesq212
Raspberry thumbprints!
My favorit recipe using jam is simple: a yummy peanut butter and jelly sandwich with strawberry jam and toasted wheat bread.
I make a bar cookie called Rapsberry Heaven Bars. They are raspberry jam, oats, pecans and more – delicious! Thanks!
A good jam mixed in brownie batter adds a fruity kick to the brownie batch. It also goes well with ice cream as a mix-in!
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Baked brie. Yummy!
My favorite recipe using jam is my grandma’s butter cookies filled with jam – pretty simple but so delicious!
Favorite jam is Strawberry Fig, so good! Although I have never cooked with it or any other jam. Look forward to trying these!
My favorite jam recipe is blueberry nectarine. It’s not only good on toast, it’s also great mixed into plain yogurt.
Thumbprint cookies
I love making jam its self during the summer. As long as I can remember all the women in the family get together in the summer and make enough freezer jam for the entire year. I have never found a store bought jam that even comes close. Of course afterwords we use it on everything from cakes to breads, my favorite is in crepes.
i love jam on toast but have never baked with it…yet!!
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Jam-Filled-Butter-Cookies/Detail.aspx this is my favorite.
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My favorite Jam recipe is a beautiful princess cake….love the cake, love the name……yummy!
Linzer tortes and linzer cookies! A Christmas family tradition!
Cranbury/Banana ! I made it for Thanksgiving and it was so DELISH!!! =)
My favorite recipe with jam? Easy. Toast whole wheat bread, add a tinge of butter, then spread liberal amounts of jam on top of it all!
I love jam 3 ways: peach jam and cinnamon mixed into hot oatmeal, seedless raspberry jam drizzled over chocolate gelato, and almost any kind of jam spread on toasted english
muffins. YUM! The combinations Crofters uses in each of
their jams sound divine. I love that they’re organic too. What
a wonderful gift to be able to win.
I’m going to have to get these even if I don’t win! I LOVE pepper jellies/jams, like Hatch Chile Pepper, Jalapeno or Hot Pepper. For an appetizer, I pour a bunch of the jelly on softened cream cheese and serve with crackers. Delicious!
I recently tried blackberry jam in crepes, and it was a hit with the family
I love to make plain old peanut butter and jam sandwiches, so boring I know but nothing is better!
I love Italian plum crostata. The recipe uses my parents’ backyard plums . Because there is an overbundance, and we are unable to eat them all at once, my Mom makes plum jam which she uses in the recipe.
I like baking my biscuits with jelly in the center so its cooked into the dough.
I love thumbprint cookies! with blueberry jam is the best!
Old fashioned jelly rolls are my favorite- filled with jam and real whipped cream!
Ham and Cheese French TOast…with a hearty smathering of blackberry jam. The perfect combo of sweet, tart and salty.
I enjoy making Thumbprint cookies with all flavors of jam.
I love making/eating fruitbars made with jam for the filling.
They are so delicious!
I love using jam as a layer in a napoleon (millefeuille) pastry! So delicious
I love to make Rasberry Bars – they have a crust like a butter cookie or pecan sandie – they never stay around long when I take them to a function!
I have made mini cheescakes (in a cupcake pan and papers) and put strawberry jam for topping.
I love raspberry!!! Best on Sunday after making biscuits and sharing them with my family.
My favorite recipe is homemade biscuits WITH homemade strawberry freezer jam. YUMMM
Honestly, my favorite use for jam is on top of toast. I’m a simple girl like that
Our favourite baking recipe using Jam is butterfly cupcakes! Cut a circle out of the top of the cupcake, fill indent with your favourite jam and then cut circle in half and place like butterfly wings on the top, then dust with powdered sugar. YUM
My favorite recipe using jam = jelly roll. I still need to practice to get it just right, but it is wonderful for a son who does not care for chocolate!
Jam thumbprint cookies are my favorite!
Muffins with Jam hiding in the middle!
I love to mix jam with a light & fruit wine and grill or bake chicken breasts with my “concoction.” I save a little of the mixture however to dip bread into while enjoying the savory chicken.
I love baking fresh biscuits and spreading them with jam.
i love to make stuffed french toast with cranberry jam, then serve it with cinnamon cream cheese. mmmm.
Raspberry bars! My mom makes them – they have a cookie crust with cream cheese, raspberry jam, and chocolate on top.
My favorite jam recipe is Thumbprint Cookies. There’s something about that buttery texture mixed with the sweetness of jam that reminds me of being a kid again. These jams look fabulous!
My favorite?
PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME. Or jam time. Jam time is good, too.
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My favorite jam recipe is baked brie in puff pastry with jam and almonds on top. Soooooooooo good!
These jams look so yummy! My favorite jam recipe would definitely be layering baked brie with jam and then baking it up in a pie crust. Mmm Mmm holidays!
i love rachel’s traditional english triffle–with ham, peas and JAM
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My favorite are thumbprint cookies with jam in the center. They are divine!
These tiny almond shortbread sandwich cookies filled with raspberry jam that I was introduced to by a former student’s mother at Valentine’s Day. I make them as often as I can find a helper, because you have to work fast!!
My son has many food allergies (dairy, soy, gluten, legumes, beef). Jam is a great way to add something special to his cakes. I like to make 2 layer vanilla cakes with a jam filling in between to add moistness and extra flavor.
I’ve always loved to make thumbprint cookies
Jam Thumbprints at Christmas! Yum!
I love fruit bars and often use whatever jars of jam I have laying around
I have a batch of these in the oven as I type! My favorite recipe so far is taking wonton wrappers, filling them with Nutella and strawberry jam, and deep frying briefly to get the crisp texture of the wrapper. The Nutella and jam melt together and it’s deliciously gooey and sweet. It’s my “gourmet” peanut butter and jelly!
I’m still a novice baker. I’ve only used jam once–between cake layers.
Peanut butter chocolate chip thumbprint cookies!
My favorite recipe with jam is pretty simple…make corn muffins (Jiffy is always good), fill half of the muffin, drop in a spoonful of raspberry jam, then add the rest (for each muffin). Bake as usual. So delicious!
My favorite recipe using jam would either be my grandmother’s recipe for gedraidts, a Romanian rolled cookie, or thumbprint cookies. The second are so easy, but yummy, and fun to make with kids.
I am so happy to find your website. I know someone that will also love the spreads.
Square Jam Cookie Bars
4 Tablespoons melted butter
1 Cup sugar
1 Teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
4 Ounces Shredded Coconut
Use shortbread crust for bars, spread a layer of jam over crust, bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes.
It’s not Jam perse, but I do love making grape jelly meatballs. They’re so good and I didn’t realize that they had jelly in them until I asked a friend for the recipe. It’s an alternative to the sweet recipes around this season, and are a great appetizer!
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1627,133187-243197,00.html
I’ve been looking for a good fruit spread to make some delicious cookies with!
I love making peanut butter cupcakes and swirl delicious jam through the batter!
I know its cliche, but my thumbprint cookies are my absolute favorite! Last year I made them with red currant preserves…amazing
i make a simple recipe of sugar cookies. My kids put in a thumbprint and we add jam.
Peanutbutter thumbprint cookies with raspberry jam!!
Russian Thumbprints Cookies.
Christmas tradition, made every year with my mom.
Raspberry Linzer Cookies, they’re delicious!
Lingonberry jam on our Swedish Pancakes.Yum!
Your jam — and the cookies — sound amazing! I love popovers made using small squares of puff pastry, a slice of brie, a dollop of berry jam. Fold over into a triangle, pInch it together and bake — it comes out all puffy and melty, savory and sweet. So good. On a more basic level, Greek yogurt with a dollop of cherry jam is fabulous. And of course nothing beats hot fresh baked bread spread with delicious jam!
jamthumbprints with a hazelnut in the middle
That looks sooo good! Thanks for the chance to win
In response to your question, what is your favorite recipe using jam?, I would say quite simply on my mother’s norwegian waffles. There is nothing better that the cardemom delecacies topped with fresh raspberry jam she makes from the farm down the road. Probably the best treat ever. Just thinking about it now. Wow, what a delight
I love thumbprint cookies with strawberry jam-yum!
Thumbprint cookies have always been a holiday tradition in my family & I am passing on the tradition.
strawberry jam for thumbprints of course! thanks for entering me in this giveaway!
a warm brie with a good jam to spread over it!
My favorite is my grandma’s traditional birthday cake with a layer of jam in the middle!
PB&J sandwiches! I’ve never cooked anything with jam, but I’m sure looking forward to trying!
Wow. Those cookies look absolutely delicious. I’m glad its finally Christmas cookie season.
My favorite jam recipe is actually a thumbprint cookie recipe with jam in the middle. My mom would always make them around Christmas time for us.
My favorite recipe for jam is chocolate thumbprint cookies. They’re my husband’s favorite cookies so baking them makes me smile.
Thanks for the giveaway! I’m a big fan of jams in any flavor and a PB&J fanatic. I’ve had jams in cookies and cakes, but nothing beats that salty/sweet combination of Peanut Butter and Jam/Jelly/Preserves sandwiches…..unless the jam is spread on buttered biscuits, still hot from the oven!!!
This is an easy question! Considering we are in the full holiday swing, my favorite recipe using jam would be thumbprints. Raspberry thumbprints are my favorite and coming in a close second would be strawberry thumbprints. Yum! I want to make a batch now!
My jam recipes usually involve toast, english muffins or homemade bread
I have made my own jam from berries growing in my yard, but I truly love most everything about jam. The jars, the labels, the jewelled colors.
I have a great recipe to marinate meatballs in a sauce with apricot jam and then serve over rice!
I’m sure if given enough time I could think of something much better but for my money, there is nothing more delicious than a perfectly buttery thumbprint cookie filled with sweet raspberry or strawberry jam.
I know this is hardly a recipe, but nothing beats jam and butter on toast! With a hot cup of tea!
I like raspberry pecan bars. YUM
My favorite is paczkis – I’m not even Polish, but these jelly filled doughnuts would make me think about trying to become Polish! Yum yum! I don’t make them very often, but they’re SO good and an absolute must for Fat Tuesday!
mmmmm . . . those empire cookies look GREAT!!! my favorite recipe using jam is thumbprint cookies – similar story, my grandmother always made them around the holidays, so they’re now a staple for my family, too
please count me in for this great giveaway!
i love jammed cocktail weenies: toss in your crockpot 1 cup fruit jam, 1 cup yellow mustard, and a bag of hickory farms lil’ smokies and you have yourself a party in a pot!
My favorite jam to use is Strawberry jam in the middle of the thumbprint cookies. Yum!
I love brownies with jam swirled on top–it makes me think of chocolate covered strawberries. Sigh. YUM. (I linked on my facebook page and my twitter but don’t know how to link back here?)
I love lemon raspberry thumbprint cookies, sweet and simple!!!
I love love, love homemade linzer raspberry clove heart cookies. They’re sort of a butter cookie using only cloves for spices. They’re shaped like hearts with a hole in the top of the sandwich through which the jam peeks. I haven’t made them in forever because I haven’t had great jam in forever. I’ve never actually seen Empire cookies before. They look like pure genius.
My mother-in-law’s recipe for raspberry-chocolate bars. They have a shortbread crust, seedless raspberry jam, a chocolate drizzle, and nuts. They are delicious!
Thumbprint cookies!
My favorite recipe using jam is on a yummy slice of warm bread with peanut butter.
WOW, I have no idea other people know about maqui, I’mfrom Chile and we used to have it all the times when out on the country
Baked brie with apricot jam and slivered almonds. Mmm!
MMM, I have been having really boring jams haven’t I? Didn’t know such great combinations were out there!
Every year my kids and I make Linzer Cookies and I can only imagine how exquisitely delicious they would be with Crofter’s Superfruit Spread! YUM!
I’m partial to my raspberry cream cheese brownies – a great blend of flavor and texture!
i loved these lingonberry jam muffins i had at a scandinavian christmas fair. they were light with the jam inside and powdered sugar outside. very delicious. in fact, i’m hoping to get some at the fair this coming weekend!
Here’s a link to the mention on my blog:
http://huntingfortheverybest.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/crofters-superfruit-spread-giveaway/
Thanks for the opportunity!
It might sound crazy, but I like to use a little peach or pear jam in chicken salad.
I LOVE using an Orange Jam to make orange peanut chicken! Mmmm! Of course, I love raspberry jam bars just as much. Ah…. now I’m hungry!
We mix jam with our pancake mix and then make the pancakes. Fantastic!
I like to make just plain PBJ for my girls. They love strawberry. Or I also like to warm it up and add it to the top of pancakes or waffles.
Honestly, on toast with a little butter does me just right.
My favorite is truly a pb&j. Yum! Next to that, I like making pork loin in the crockpot w/ apricot jam.
Raspberry thumbprint cookies! Another fave — not really a recipe — is cottage cheese topped with any delicious jam. Raspberry also works well, as does apricot.
I like inserting jams into the centers of home cooked risen doughnuts!
I love using jam as a glaze, like jalapeno jam on — well, just about any meat, or fruit jam adding a hint of flavor to a marinade.
oh apricot jam works so well with cookies! Mmm the best, ever.
No recipe, just a simple pm&j or sometimes just by itself!
Oh, jam, I love you. Conserves too.
My all-time favorite recipe using a prepared sweet jam or conserve would have to be baked brie in pastry. When it’s made with good ingredients, it’s transcendental; even when made with indifferent stuff from the corner store, it’s pretty great.
Take a small wheel of brie and spread the top thickly with jam or fruit conserve. (I’m thinking either Superfruit Europe, with currant and pomegranate, or the Superfruit South America, with maqui and passionfruit, would work well.) Then wrap the whole thing up in plain pastry crust, or a sheet of puff pastry, or a few layers of phyllo.
Seal the seams well, but don’t worry about making it fancy; it will bake up to a beautiful flaky golden crust. Cut a slash or two to allow steam to escape. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment.
Brush the crust with egg wash (for puff pastry or pie crust; beat an egg with a teaspoon of water) or with melted butter (for phyllo) and bake at the temperature recommended for the particular pastry (noted on the package or in the recipe) until everything is golden brown.
Serve it with crackers or — even better! — a baguette, apple slices, or a bunch of dark grapes, or a pile of dried cherries, or a handful of nuts. It’s gorgeous.
I make squash with rosemary and apricot jam
These look so good. I must try them. It looks like a great update to the thumbprint version. I love it!! Thanks!!
Honestly, good old fashioned pb&j is my favorite use for jelly