Vampire Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup red jam (raspberry or strawberry)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325°f.
• 2 in a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light.
• 3 beat in egg and extracts.
• 4 add flour and salt to the bowl and mix them into the butter-sugar mixture at low speed until dough is just combined.
• 5 wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
• 6 divide dough in half and keep the portion you are not using in the refrigerator.
• 7 roll dough out on a lightly floured surface until it is about 1/8-inch thick.
• 8 use a cookie cutter to cut out 2-inch rounds.
• 9 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.
• 10 use a toothpick and poke two small holes (like a vampire bite) in the top of each cookie.
• 11 bake for 10-12 minutes, until cookies are set.
• 12 cool for about 5 minutes on the baking sheet, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
• 13 dip a toothpick in some extra red jam and re-insert in the “biteâ€? 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.
• 14 cookies are best the day they are made.