Ruby Tea Cookies

Today my daughter and I made cute little Ruby Tea Cookies, yummy 

little almond and orange cookies sandwiched with raspberry jam!

The recipe came from a cookbook called "Fairy Cooking." It's a

really cute cookbook that any little girl would love! It's full of

mini delights including "Pretty Fairy Fudge," "Swirly Pink

Cookies," "Tiny Fairy Cakes," and "Butterfly Cupcakes!"

Since I thought that the cookies might be tricky to move to the

baking sheet after cutting out, I actually rolled the dough out

and cut out the shapes on the parchment paper. Then I just

peeled the extra dough away from the cookies and transferred

the parchment paper to the baking sheet.

Rolling out the dough and cutting out the shapes is a little time consuming, 

but worth it! This would be a fun activity at a birthday party!

I wet the flower cookies with a little water using a pastry brush before

adding the sprinkles.

RUBY TEA COOKIES

Fairy Cooking

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened

1/4 cup granulated sugar

one small orange

1 medium egg, beaten

2 tbsp ground almonds

1 3/4 cups AP flour

1 tbsp cornmeal

8 tbsp raspberry jam

2" round cookie cutter

small flower cookie cutter

Into a large bowl, mix butter & sugar until creamy.  Zest the rind 

from orange and add to bowl and combine. Add egg, combine. 

Add almonds, combine. Mix together flour & cornmeal, then combine 

with butter mixture.  Mix together until a dough forms. Wrap dough 

in plastic food wrap and chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sprinkle some flour onto a work 

surface and roll out dough to 1/8" thick. Using round cutter, cut 

out circles. Then use the flower cutter to cut holes in the middle 

of half of the circles. Squeeze scraps into a ball and roll out again, 

cutting out as many shapes as you can. Place cookies on a baking 

sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for 15 minutes. Leave 

them on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes, then cool on wire rack. 

Spread preserves on the whole cookies, as far as the edge.

Then place a flower cookie on each one and press down gently.

I used my vintage tea towel with the bluebird taking tea!

So cute!!

The little flower shaped cookies below were the extra shapes

left over after cutting out the cookies. My bluebird loved

them with her tea! LOL!

Thanks for popping by! Have a great day!!