Jammie Dodgers Recipe

Jammie Dodgers are two shortbread biscuits sandwiched together usually with raspberry or strawberry jam, or your favourite fruit preserve or curd.

I adapted my recipe for Melting Moments to bring you this version of Jammie Dodgers filled with Apricot preserve. You can use any jam or fruit curd that you have to hand. Do a mix and match of different flavours if you wish. Use up all those odd pots of jam.

How to make Jammie Dodgers

Preheat the oven to 160deg fan assisted. Have ready a baking tray lined with a silicone baking sheet or baking parchment.

Cream the butter and sugar together until well combined. This will only take a couple of mins if the butter is soft enough.

Add the flour, cornflour, vanilla extract, and salt. Mix everything together to form a smooth firm dough.

Roll out between two sheets of baking parchment until 2 -3 mm thick. Using your favourite heart shaped cutter, and depending on its size, cut out 36 heart shapes. Or as many as you can. You may need to bring the offcuts together again and reroll the pastry to cut enough heart shapes.

Using the open end of a piping nozzle cut out the centre of half of the whole heart shapes.

Place them onto the prepared baking sheet with enough space to allow for a little spreading. You will either need to bake in batches or use more than one baking tray.

Bake in the centre of the oven for 10 – 12 mins. Or until baked. They won't have a deep golden baked colour, but they will be slightly firm to the touch.

To appease the perfectionist in you, recut the centre holes, while the biscuits are still warm to avoid breaking them. Neaten the holes, using the open end of your piping nozzle. When done, leave the biscuits to cool completely.

How to Assemble Jammie Dodgers

Turn over the whole heart shapes so that the smooth part is on the outside. Add ½ teaspoon of apricot jam in the centre and carefully spread towards the outside edge of the biscuit. Leave a gap to allow for further spreading when you add the top biscuit.

Place the Heart shaped biscuit with the hole on the top and press down gently. Dust each Jammy Dodger with a little caster sugar.

Tips and FAQ's

• Having cornflour in the recipe gives these biscuits a nice light, melt in the mouth texture.
• If you don’t have any corn flour. Using Plain Flour will be ok.
• Handle the dough as little as possible. The heat from your hands will start to melt the dough.
• If you feel that the dough is starting to become too soft and melt, place it in the fridge for about 10 minutes to firm up again.

Jammie Dodgers Recipe

Lynn Hill

Jammie Dodgers are two shortbread biscuits sandwiched together usually with raspberry or strawberry jam, or your favourite fruit preserve or curd.

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 12 minutes mins

Total Time 32 minutes mins

Course Afternoon Tea, Snack

Cuisine British

Servings 18

Calories 2357 kcal

Equipment

• Baking Tray
• Baking Parchment
• Heart Shaped cutter
• Open end of a pipping nozzle

INGREDIENTS

• 75 g icing sugar sieved
• 150 g unsalted butter softened
• 150 g plain flour sieved
• 75 g cornflour sieved
• ¼ teaspoons vanilla extract
• pinch of salt
• 8 teaspoons apricot jam or your favourite fruit preserve or curd.

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 160deg fan assisted. Have ready a baking tray lined with a silicone baking sheet or baking parchment.
• Beat the butter and sugar together until well combined. This will only take a couple of minites if the butter is soft enough.
• Add the flour, cornflour, vanilla extract and salt. Mix everything together to form a smooth firm dough.
• Roll the dough out between two sheets of baking parchment until 2-3 mm thick. Using your favourite heart shaped cutter, and depending on its size, cut out 36 heart shapes. Or as many as you can.
• You may need to bring the offcuts together again and reroll the pastry to cut enough heart shapes.
• Using the open end of a piping nozzle cut out the centre of half of the whole heart shapes.
• Place them onto the prepared baking sheet with enough space to allow for a little spreading. You will either need to bake in batches or use more than one baking tray.
• Bake in the centre of the oven for 10 – 12 mins. Or until baked. They won't have a deep golden baked colour, but they should be slightly firm to the touch.
• If you want to recut and neaten the centre holes, do this while the biscuits are still warm to avoid breaking the biscuits, do this using the open end of your piping nozzle
• When done, leave to cool completely.

Assemble the Jammie Dodgers

• Turn over the whole heart shapes so that the smooth part is on the outside. Add ½ teaspoon of apricot jam in the centre and carefully spread towards the outside edge of the biscuit. Leave a gap to allow for further spreading when you add the top biscuit.
• Place the Heart shaped biscuit with the hole on the top and press down gently. Dust each Jammy Dodger with a little caster sugar.

Notes

TIPS AND FAQ’S

• Having cornflour in the recipe gives these biscuits a nice light, melt in the mouth texture.
• If you don’t have any corn flour. Using Plain Flour will be ok.
• Handle the dough as little as possible. The heat from your hands will start to melt the dough.
• If you feel that the dough is starting to become too soft and melt, place it in the fridge for about 10 minutes to firm up again.

What is a Jammie Dodger?

Jammy Dodgers are two shortbread biscuits sandwiched together with a little jam.

Where does the name Jammie Dodger come from?

The biscuit Jammie Dodger was originally named after Roger the Dodger in The Beano comic book which was first published in 1953.

Keyword Buttery, cookies, Jammy Dodgers