vampire cookies!

How To Make vampire cookies!

• 1

  In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light. Beat in egg and extracts.
• 2

  Add flour and salt to the bowl and mix them into the butter-sugar mixture at low speed until dough is just combined. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
• 3

  Preheat oven to 325F.
• 4

  Divide dough in half and keep the portion you are not using in the refrigerator.
• 5

  Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface until it is about 1/8-inch thick. Use a cookie cutter to cut out 2-inch rounds.
• 6

  Place rounds on a baking sheet, put a teaspoon of jam on each of them and cover with another round of dough. Press edges down lightly, pinching the edges onto the cookie sheet. Use a toothpick and poke two small holes (like a vampire bite) in the top of each cookie.
• 7

  Bake for 10-12 minutes, until cookies are set.
• 8

  Dip a toothpick in some extra red jam and re-insert in the “bite” holes you made before baking to emphasize them, if not already red. Draw a blood trickle down from one of the bites with the jam, if desired.
• 9

  Makes about 2 dozen.
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