Welcome to the 9th day of Baking Mania. Thanks a lot for all your support. I never thought eggless bakes would become this popular. Thanks for all your comments, likes and messages. I don’t know why I didn’t post them earlier. Better late than never. For me, this baking event is a great learning process.
Ok now coming back to the post, I think all of us are enjoying the spring break. :-) If you are planning any baking activity with kids, this would be your perfect choice. A simple cookie where in the kids can help you with creating thumb impression and fill the holes with jam. This time I am using apple sauce as an egg replacer. I took the base recipe from food network website. But I replaced the egg though and also I didn’t bake along with jam. I baked the cookies first and then filled it with hot jam. 
Ingredients:
- All purpose flour – 1.75 cups
- Baking powder – ½ tsp
- Salt – ½ tsp
- Butter – 1.5 sticks or ¾ cup
- Sugar – ⅔ cup
- Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
- Unsweetened apple sauce – ¼ cup
- Any fruit jam – ½ cup or as required (I used kissan mixed fruit jam)
- Other decors like sprinkles, MnMs can be used too.
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together in a bowl.
- In another bowl, whip the butter and the sugar with a hand-held mixer until fluffy, about 5 minutes.
- Now add the apple sauce and vanilla essence until just combined.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix them well till they are incorporated.
- Scoop the dough into small balls and roll them into your favorite shapes. I did Xmas themed ones.
- Place about 2-inches apart on the prepared baking sheets.
- Press a thumbprint into the center of each ball and you get help from your kiddo.
- Bake cookies for about 15 minutes.
- Let it cool. Meanwhile, microwave the jam for a minute and add the jam in the middle of the cookie where we did the thumb impression.
- Also, I tried other shapes like star, Xmas tree and ginger bread man. Decorated them with MnMs and Jam.
That’s it yummy, jam cookies are ready.
Notes:
- You can use any flavored jam and sky is the limit for decoration.
- Adjust sugar as per your preference.
- Apple sauce is the egg replacer here. If you can source it, replace it with yogurt and include ¼ tsp of baking soda.
📖 Recipe
Eggless Jam Cookies
Ingredients
- All purpose flour - 1.75 cups
- Baking powder - ½ tsp
- Salt - ½ tsp
- Butter - 1.5 sticks or ¾ cup
- Sugar - ⅔ cup
- Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
- Unsweetened apple sauce - ¼ cup
- Any fruit jam - ½ cup or as required I used kissan mixed fruit jam
- Other decor like sprinkles MnMs can be used too.
Instructions
Steps
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together in a bowl.
- In another bowl, whip the butter and the sugar with a hand-held mixer until fluffy, about 5 minutes.
- Now add the apple sauce and vanilla essence until just combined.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix them well till they are incorporated.
- Scoop the dough into small balls and roll them into your favorite shapes. I did Xmas themed ones.
- Place about 2-inches apart on the prepared baking sheets.
- Press a thumbprint into the center of each ball and you get help from your kiddo.
- Bake cookies for about 15 minutes.
- Let it cool. Meanwhile microwave the jam for a minute and add the jam in the middle of the cookie where we did the thumb impression. Also I tried other shapes like star, Xmas tree and ginger bread man. Decorated them with MnMs and Jam.
- Thats it yummy, jam cookies are ready.
Notes
Adjust sugar as per your preference.
Apple sauce is the egg replacer here. If you can source it, replace it with yogurt and include ¼ tsp of baking soda. Adapted from Food Network
I am not a nutritionist. The nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. It varies depending upon the product types or brands.
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cookies looks cute with different shapes.
Thanks Gayathri.
Yummy cookies.
Thanks
Yummy looking jam cookies.
:-) Thanks
My son has been asking me to bake these for a long time. Kids would simply love this :)
Agree Sandhya. Simple cookies
Lovely cookies. Easy to please a kid with these jam filled cookies…
I totally agree with you
Kids would love this treat ..
yeah :-)
Very delicious looking cookies…
Thanks Valli
Cute looking cookies, my kiddos favorite..
:-) Same pinch
Wow the cookies look so so pretty, they are equally tempting. Very well baked.
Thanks
Attractive and tempting cookies.
Thanks Sneha
My daughter adores these cookies. The baked sticky jam makes it so delicious.
yeah very true. Thanks
How attractive they are… Addictive jam cookies definitely..
Yeah. This time kiddo took this to his day care and all gone with in an hour.
beautiful thumb print cookies..
Thanks.
Cute cookies and am sure very addictive
Thanks
The cookies look yummy.
Thanks Suma
Wow Sri.. Cookies looks delicious and wonderful.. Can’t wait to try it :)
:-) :-)
It is a very delicious cookie.. also looks super tempting..
Thanks Sowmya.
Super cool!! very yummy cookies :)
Thanks Malar. :-)