"Navette" Style Cookies

These cookies are really delicious. And what makes them so delicious? They are soft in the middle and crunchy on the sides. 

The original "Navette" Cookies are without the jam. But I love cookies with jam and that way they stay soft for some time. 

Without the jam they get too hard, at last for me.

I didn't use normal jam for them. Last summer I made a mistake when I weighed the strawberries and mangos for a homemade jam. In the end there was too much jam sugar in it and it came out too firm. But it's great for these cookies. 

I actually tried a batch with normal jam and it melted of too much. They still taste good of cause but they don't look as good as with these "wrong" jam.

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"Navette" Style Cookies

500-530 g flour
90 g butter, soft
200 g sugar
2 eggs
4 tbsp "White Chocolate" sirup
ca. 1 cup jam

1. Put the sugar and the butter into a bowl and blend it with a hand mixer.
2. Put the eggs in induvidually and mix well in between.
3. Put the sirup in and blend that too.
4. Put the flour in slowly. Blend it with your hands. When the dough no longer sticks to your hands and is a smooth solid mass it is enough flour.
5. Prepare a baking sheet with baking parchment.
6. Flour your work surface lightly. Roll the dough on the surface and cut the roll into ca. 1 cm thick pieces.
7. Pre-heat the oven to 200°C/390°F.
8. Pinch two sides of the pieces to form the "Navette" shape. Put a cut in the middle and push the sides of the hole to make it a little bigger.
9. Place the boats on the baking sheet. Fill the holes of each cookie with about 1/2 tsp jam.
10. Bake the cookies for about 17-20 minutes.

The dough is enough for two baking sheets.

Bon appétit!!