Chocolate Shortbread Thumbprints with Jalapeno Jam

Ingredients


2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/4 teaspoons salt

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened

3/4 cup confectioners' sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

½ jar of Jammy Yummy Jalapeno Jam with 1 tsp of chili powder


Method

• Line 2 baking sheets with parchment. In the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar until fluffy, occasionally scraping down the sides of bowl. Add vanilla. Add flour and salt and mix on low speed, scraping sides if necessary, until flour is just incorporated and dough sticks together.

• Turn out dough onto wax paper and form into a roll. Tie ends of roll closed and refrigerate until firm, at least 1 hour.

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

• Remove dough from fridge and cut dough circles of approx. 1/4-inch thickness. Indent center of the cookies with your thumb. Add a teaspoon of Jammy Yummy Jalapeno jam, which has been combined with optional chili powder, to the center of each cookie.

• Bake until firm and golden, 13 to 15 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack.

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