Jammie Dodgers

Yes! I'd love some tea! What biscuits do you have there? Jammie Dodgers?! My favorite.

The after-dinner adventure tonight was baking Jammie Dodgers in honor of the last new Doctor Who episode for a long time. I found this recipe for "clones" of the British package cookie. I halved the recipe that was on the website and ended up a little short of 2 dozen sandwich cookies.

Combine:
1 cup butter (2 sticks) softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup, packed brown sugar
1 egg

In a separate bowl (or the same bowl, on top of the wet ingredients if you are lazy like me) combine:
3 3/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Add dry ingredients to the wet, one cup at a time, alternating with:
1/8 cup milk and
1 TABLESPOON vanilla extract


Chill in the refrigerator for at least a couple hours before you try to roll out the dough. Because my kitchen was so warm, I had to take out only small hunks of dough at a time so that it wouldn't all warm up too fast. Rolling out warm dough is a messy and frustrating task.


Roll dough on a floured surface-- about 1/8 inch thick. Cut out circles that are about 2 inches in diameter (I used a drinking glass to do this). Place cookies on a greased baking sheet. Make cute cut-outs in half of the cookies (these will be the tops of the sandwich cookies). I used a knife to make my cut-outs, but if you have tiny cookie cutters it would be easier. I incorporated the discarded bits from the center of the cut-out cookies back into my rolled out dough to be economical.


Bake at 350 for 8 minutes.


Cool.

Spread jam (I used seedless blackberry jam) on a plain cookie and top with a cut-out cookie. Repeat. I estimate I used about half a jar of jam.

Ben and I thought these cookies were great (worth the effort). That opinion was later verified by two people who are not authors on this blog-- so you can trust us on this one.