Cream cheese whole wheat cookies with Prune Jam
About:
These are cream cheese cookies with wheat flour makes it healthier. These are bit softer in the center and crispier on the edges. The jam filling makes it a perfect treat, I used prune jam in this cookies but you can use any flavour of jam.
Yields: 18-20 cookies
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Baking time: 15-20 minutes
Ingredients:
- Low fat cream cheese-100gms
- Olive oil spread/butter-4-5tbsp
- Honey/brown sugar-1/2cup
- Wheat flour-1cup
- Corn starch-3-4tbsp
- Vanilla extract-1tbsp
- Baking powder-1/2tsp
Prune jam:
- Pitted prunes-150-200gms
- Honey-4tbsp
- Water-just enough to cover prunes
- Lime juice-2tsp
Procedure:
- Pre-heat the oven at 170deg, line and grease the baking tray and set aside.
- Cream together olive butter, honey, cream cheese until well mixed. Add in vanilla flavour mix well
- Combine wheat flour, corn starch, salt in other bowl.
- Gradually sift in flour to the cream cheese-butter mixture and stir until blended well.
- Chill the dough for 30minutes.
Meanwhile prepare the jam:
- Soak prunes for 2hours, rinse and then place into a saucepan.
- Add water and honey/brown sugar to the pan, bring to the boil then reduce heat and simmer until the prunes have completely softened (about 15-20minutes).
- Stir every so often to ensure they do not stick to the pan.
- Once the prunes are soft and most of the water has been absorbed remove from the heat.
- Cool a bit and smooth by pureeing it/ just mash it using the fork but might be bit chunkier in texture.
For cookies:
- Remove the cookie dough from the refrigerator and place dough in a piping bag fitted with star tip, squeezing the dough toward the tip of the bag to eliminate air pockets
- Hold the bag perpendicular to a baking sheet, aiming the tip where you want the center of the cookie to be. Squeezing firmly on the bag’s end, pipe the cookies by guiding the bag in a counterclockwise spiral out from the cookie’s center.
- With the end of a wooden spoon, make an indentation about 1/2inch wide and 1/2inch deep in the center of each spiral, dip the spoon handle in flour if it sticks to the cookie dough.
- Place a teaspoon of jam into each cookie indentation to fully fill, don’t overfill or the jam wil run out onto cookie.
- Bake cookies until the edges are golden brown, about 15-20minutes.
- Let the cookies sit on the baking sheet for 5minutes before removing to a rack to cool.
Note:
- Using wheat flour makes the cookies bit softer but the tastes delicious.
- Can use readymade jam of any flavour/any homemade jam as the filling.
- Instead of piping can go for the easier way – just makes balls, make an indent in cookies-fill jam and bake
Posted on September 7, 2014, in Dessert, Indian, International, Kids recipes, Starters. Bookmark the permalink. 41 Comments.
Wow 🙂 absolute awesome combination! they look so yumm!
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Thanks Tanvee…
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Love the cookies with jam:-)
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Thanks dear
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These look so delicious and so professional. Thank you for posting the directions for making them without a piping bag. I think I have one somewhere, but it’s a bit flimsy.
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So glad you noticed it and happy…
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Prune sounds very interesting 🙂
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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Oh, they look amazing Chitra, delicious 🙂
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Thanx dear Linda….have a lovely day.. 🙂
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These look delicious! And I love prune jam!
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Thanks Ginger…..
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they look sooo good!
best, Lou
http://vegantarianlifesytle.com
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Thanks Lou…
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Reblogged this on Chef Ceaser.
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Thank you
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Whoa! These look amazing! 🙂
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Thanks Radhi 🙂
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Chitra, these are beautiful cookies! I am sure they taste just as good!
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Yes Julie…They were relly nice and soft as well..
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These look fantastic!!!
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Thank you Bernice…
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Beautifully presented Chitra! The DOF, and lighting are lovely. The cookies look delicious.
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Thank you so much….Really great feedback and inspirational
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yuumy Chitra!!! Prunes is very good for health 🙂
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Thanx Malar… it was not crispy but soft and delish with sweet tangy jam… 🙂
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lovely
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Thanx a million bunch. ..have a lovely day…:)
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Gorgeous cookies Chitra! Love the jam filling, makes me wanna be a kid again 😀
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Ha ha …. I wish the same to become a kid again which will never happen but can pretend though…….loved your cute comment. ..thanx a bunch… have a lovely day.. 🙂
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Like the idea of piping the cookie batter……. they look awesome…..
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Thanx Jay… it was fun… 🙂
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These cookies look perfect!! I love the fact that you used whole wheat flour, I try to use it, when possible. Wonderful recipe!
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Thanx Serena. … glad you liked it… 🙂 🙂
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Reblogged this on Vik T. Arch Cooking Wonders.
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Thanks for your support
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Thank you for a lovely recipe.
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Thanx Viktory. … glad you liked it… have a lovely day… 🙂
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Too good!
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Thank you !
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