Cookies with preserves

A tried-and-true family recipe with the perfect cookie dough base filled with fruit jam or preserves.

These cream cheese jam pinwheel cookies are airy, light and buttery with a sweet raspberry jam. Cream cheese dough and jam are swirled together to make a beautiful Christmas design. Sprinkle them with a little powdered sugar to look like snow.

Delicious buttery shortbread cookies filled with raspberry and apricot jam. These Thumbprint Cookies are perfect for the holidays or any occasion!

These Homemade Christmas Cookies with Jam Filling are a festive delight! They're perfect for holiday gatherings or as a sweet gift, spreading joy with every delicious bite.

Traditional Linzer Cookies are rich, buttery cookies beautifully accentuated by almonds, fruit preserves, and cinnamon. Cut out in all sorts of fun shapes and filled with your choice of jam filling, Linzer cookies deserve a starring role on your Christmas cookie platter!

Raspberry thumbprint cookies are a perfect dessert for Valentine's Day, Christmas or any time of year! Learn how to make these thumbprint cookies with icing, including the best time to add jam to your cookies. Should you add jam before, during or after baking? I'm sharing my results for this classic cookie recipe.

These Soft Christmas Thumbprint Cookies are a holiday must-have! They’re delightfully chewy and perfect for sharing with family and friends at your festive gatherings.

Melt-in-your-mouth, traditional Strawberry Jam Cookies (thumbprints) that are sweet and buttery, with a soft, jammy center and lemony glaze.

Linzer cookies with raspberry jam filling are the ultimate Christmas cookie! Delicate and delicious, they are major showstoppers for your holiday cookie platters and swaps! And they make for such a fun family baking project too!

Shortbread linzer cookies are chewy and buttery shortbread cookies with a cranberry raspberry jam filling that is perfect for Christmas!