How To Make Jam-Filled Mezzaluna Cookies
Amp up tea time with these delectable mezzaluna cookies! Half moon-shaped doughs are filled with berry jam for a tart baked treat.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1½cupspastry flour
- 2tbspgranulated sugar
- 1½sticksunsalted butter
- 1tbsppure vanilla extract
- 1largeegg white
- ½cupraspberry jam,or blackberry jam, seedless
- ½cupalmonds,thinly sliced, blanched
- confectioners’ sugar,sifted, for dusting
Instructions
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In a bowl, whisk the pastry flour with granulated sugar. Add the butter and, using a pastry blender, fingers, or 2 dinner knives, blend the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles a coarse meal.
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Sprinkle on the vanilla and knead gently until a dough forms. Pat the dough into a disk, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour or until thoroughly chilled.
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper and refrigerate. Cut the dough into 4 pieces.
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Working with 1 piece at a time and leaving the rest in the refrigerator, roll out the dough to ⅛-inch thick on a lightly floured work surface. Using a 4-inch round biscuit cutter, stamp out as many rounds as possible; gather and reserve the scraps.
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Brush the edges of each round with some of the egg white. Spoon 1 rounded teaspoon of jam onto ½ of each round, leaving a ¼-inch border; fold the other ½ over to enclose the jam.
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Using the tines of a fork, press the edges together to seal. Transfer the mezzaluna to one of the chilled baking sheets, spacing them 2-inches apart.
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Repeat with the remaining 3 pieces of dough and filling, then repeat with the gathered scraps. Refrigerate the mezzaluna for at least 10 minutes.
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Brush the mezzaluna with egg white, sprinkle with granulated sugar, and top with a generous sprinkling of sliced almonds.
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Dust with confectioners’ sugar and serve.
Nutrition
- Calories: 187.56kcal
- Fat: 10.95g
- Saturated Fat: 5.63g
- Trans Fat: 0.35g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.65g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.92g
- Carbohydrates: 20.06g
- Fiber: 0.89g
- Sugar: 7.26g
- Protein: 2.35g
- Cholesterol: 22.78mg
- Sodium: 8.19mg
- Calcium: 18.62mg
- Potassium: 61.09mg
- Iron: 1.16mg
- Vitamin A: 72.46µg
- Vitamin C: 0.88mg
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