Hi everyone, today we’re baking cookies. This is my first recipe of Febmas (still not sure about that) and the first edition of my new monthly collab with the lovely Emily. She has tonnes of great recipe posts as well as fashion and lifestyle posts. This month for our collab we went with a Valentine’s theme and decided to send each other a list of ingredients. We then had to come up with a recipe from them. I can’t wait to see what she’s made with the list I sent her! See her recipe here. (Future Sophie here: we could have made anything and we both made cookies!)
The list she sent me included rye flour, oats, cherries, dried fruit then standard baking stuff like dairy free butter and some brown sugar. I had the option of using any extras I needed too but tried to stick as close to the list as possible, so the only extras are chia seeds for the jam and some vanilla in the cookies.
I’d originally planned on making a cherry tart then somewhere along the line that became biscuits. So, we have heart shaped jammy dodgers. A heart shaped oat and rye cookie with a cherry chia jam centre.
The biscuits are great alone if you don’t want to make the jam, I’m sending a plain batch over to my grandparents later today.
This recipe is low gluten*, dairy free, nut free and vegan.
*rye is a low gluten flour so it can often be consumed by people with a gluten sensitivity but is not suitable for those with a gluten allergy.
Serves:
2 large sandwich biscuits, or about twenty small hearts.
Prep time:
Cookies: 10 minutes
Jam: Approx 1 hour
Cook time:
15 minutes, the jam will need to chill for about an hour before the cookies can be assembled.
Ingredients
For the cookies:
- Half a cup rye flour
- Half a cup oat flour
- Half a cup dairy free butter
- Half a cup brown sugar
- 1tsp baking powder
- 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
For the jam:
- Approximately 200g pitted cherries (I used frozen)
- 2tbsp brown sugar
- 100ml water
- 10g chia seeds
Method
For the jam:
- Add roughly 100ml water to a small saucepan with the sugar.
- When the water is lukewarm add the cherries.
- Leave on a low heat to simmer for 45minutes – an hour. In this time the cherries should soften and have started to break apart. The mixture should be thick and no longer watery.
- Add chia seeds and set aside to cool, the chia seeds will help it thicken and become the appropriate texture.
For the cookies:
- Preheat oven to 175oc and line a baking tray with greaseproof paper.
- Place the butter in a large bowl and beat for a couple of minutes until mixture is soft and creamy.
- Add the sugar and beat again for another two minutes.
- In another bowl mix the remaining dry ingredients until fully combined then add the mix to the other bowl, half at a time.
- When the dough is fully mixed, stir in the vanilla extract.
- Press out the dough onto the baking tray. You can use a rolling pin if you prefer, but I find this works best with your hands. Take a large heart shaped cookie cutter and make sure you’ve spread it out enough to make 4 large biscuits.
- Place in the oven and bake for about 15 minutes. They should be golden all over, firm around the edges but still soft in the centre when they’re done.
- As soon as they come out of the oven, use the large heart shaped cookie cutter to make four cookies. Then cut the centre out of two of the cookies using a smaller cookie cutter. Use the smaller cutter to make little biscuits with the remainder left on the tray and set aside for 10 minutes to cool.
- Once the jam has cooled, spread some jam over the whole cookie then place the other one on top.
Enjoy!
For yesterday’s post click here, and for my latest recipe click here.
These look so yummy, and they’re a perfect treat for Valentine’s Day! Great post, and I love your photos
Once again, loving the recipe posts! These look so good!
These are so cute. I’ll be trying them!
I am too lazy to bake my own cookies but these look so healthy and delicious.
Omg, these sound so delicious and look so good. Jammy dodgers are one of my favourites! I’d love to make these, might have to try make it next weekend if I have some time!
Amy,
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These are the cutest cookies I’ve ever seen! Think I’ll have to make some for my boyfriend and they sound absolutely delicious x
Oh these cookies look so cute I think I may have to try and bake these for my other half and me of course .
These look so cute and so yummy! Perfect for Valentine’s Day! My bf is coming over to London next weekend so it is the perfect occasion to try this recipe!
Ooh these sound super yummy and look like typical warming home-made treats too!! Definitely going to be on mine and my partners list of baking treats to make 🙂
Alice Xx
Love finding new recipes to try, thanks for sharing! xx
What a fantastic idea to send a list of ingredients and see what you can make! These are so cute and as usual look mouth-wateringly delicious! Fab post
Melanie | http://www.frasersfunhouse.com
Ooh, what a cute way to include low gluten foods! Thanks for the recipe.
These look so delicious! I’m currently on the look out for some fantastic Valentine’s recipes, and I’m very tempted by these!
Tori | JustTheBeginning-x.com
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These look incredible! Definitely going to have to give these a try!
Chloe ❤
Ooh! These look super yummy, I’m gonna have to give these a try soon. Also what a perfect little treat for Valentine’s Day!
Charlotte |
These look so cute and very suitable for Valentine’s Day! Haven’t baked in ages, might give these a try
Jessica & James | http://www.foodandbaker.co.uk /
This is such a great post and those cookies look amazing and so yummy seriously craving some now! I’m definitely going to try out this recipe soon it looks great! x
These look incredible! I love that you made the jam from scratch and that it included chia seeds! I need to start baking again and I’ll definitely give this recipe a go.
-Olivia Xxx
My stomach grumbled reading this. They look heavenly! LOVE that is a homemade Chia seed jam too!
xxx
Yum! I want a piece of that 🙂
These look so cute and yummy! x
Soo yummy and perfect for Valentines Day Sophie! I could eat one right now, I’m so hungry! Thanks for sharing the recipe and brilliant photography, as always xx
Bexa | http://www.hellobexa.com
Yum yum in my tum tum! These are perfect, I’m waiting on you to bring on a cookbook tbqh! Lol quit playing with my emotions Sophie, sincerely a hungry Lena I also pinned this cause I needed Pinterest to learn about these.
xx Lena |
These are so cute!! The cherry jam with chia seeds is such a copy cat for raspberry jam in looks – totally fooled me here. Taste though would be obvious. These look so special and a perfect lovely treat <3 thanks for sharing!