Jam Drop Cookies

To my knowledge, pretty much everyone has had some experience with this. A grandmother, a mother, an aunty - there is someone in your life that has made these cookies and you were just like, wow. Or maybe not. If so, you should probably begin your own wow experience right now.

Jam Drop Cookies 

(Makes 30)

Ingredients

125g butter

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

1 egg

1 1/4 cup self-raising flour

1/4 cup jam

Method

Lets pretend we're making normal cookies. Beat the sugar, butter and vanilla essence, add the egg, then sift in the flour (I actually don't sift anything, I'm lazy. I probably don't even own a sive. I just sound like a professional whenever I tell you to sift anything.)

Spoon out the cookie dough onto a tray, just like normal cookies, remember? Now, exciting news! These aren't normal cookies! In fact, you should now poke little holes into the dough. Not all the way through, just a little home for our jam. I generally don't put the jam in a cup. I think that's weird. And messy. I just measured it out for the more precise members of the audience. But basically, spoon the jam from wherever it is currently living, into its new home. And then, throw them in the oven to cook.

If you cook them in a 180 degree oven for 15 minutes they will be perfect. But if you try to eat them directly after they've come out of the oven, you will burn your mouth. It will hurt. And you will get no sympathy. (oh, fine, maybe a little bit. but it's your fault, dammit!)

Price

72c for the butter
12c for the sugar
8c for the vanilla essence
37c for the egg
4c for the flour
30c for the jam

I'm sure this price will vary depending on the quality of the jam you use, but I just have the Coles brand raspberry one. For $1.63, I'm happy with this trip nostalgia/tastiness.