147 jam cookie recipes

Traditional Austrian Ischli cookies with ground almonds, sandwiched with raspberry jam and topped with mocha chocolate icing. A classic European holiday cookie worth the overnight chill.

Glazed ribbon cookies with buttery shortbread dough rolled into strips, filled with raspberry jam, and drizzled with vanilla glaze. Holiday cookie tray classic.

Spice and nut thumbprint cookies with ground pecans, cinnamon, and jam filling. Buttery shortbread-style cookies with a fruity center, perfect for holiday baking.

Kolachkies are flaky Polish cream cheese cookies with thumbprint centers filled with apricot jam. A buttery holiday tradition that melts in your mouth.

Thumbprint snowball cookies with walnuts, cinnamon, and lemon zest in the dough, filled with raspberry jam and dusted with powdered sugar. A festive holiday cookie.

Scottish Empire cookies: buttery shortbread rounds sandwiched with raspberry jam, topped with a thin sugar glaze and colored sprinkles. A classic tea-time biscuit.

This is a rich, interesting cookie, made with nuts, raisins, cinnamon, and jam rolled into a tender cream-cheese pastry.

Lemon butter wafers are thin, lacy butter cookies scented with fresh lemon zest and ground almonds. Perfect with tea or sandwiched with raspberry jam.

Linzer thumbprint cookies with ground almonds, dark brown sugar, cinnamon, lemon zest, and cherry jam centers. An Austrian-inspired butter cookie with a tender, nutty crumb.

Lilly cookies: three-ingredient cream cheese pastry folded around a dab of jam into a lily-shaped cone. A delicate, flaky cookie with limitless filling options.

Homemade fig newtons with a chewy brown-sugar cookie wrapped around real fig jam cooked with lemon. The classic lunchbox cookie made fresh, no preservatives required.

Peanut butter thumbprint cookies with a chewy raisin-date filling in the center. Nostalgic, tender, and less sweet than the jam-filled version. Makes 60 cookies.

Pecan thumbprint cookies, the classic shortbread-style holiday cookie. Buttery, melt-in-your-mouth dough rolled in finely chopped pecans with a thumbprint well ready for jam, chocolate, or icing.

Almond raspberry tassies are bite-size tarts with a cream cheese pastry shell, a hidden dot of raspberry jam, and a frangipane-style almond filling. Tea cookies that look fancy but mix in one bowl.

Italian rainbow cookies (seven layer cookies): three almond paste sponge layers tinted red, green, and yellow, stacked with raspberry jam, and coated in chocolate. A classic holiday bakery tradition.

Birds nests are thumbprint cookies rolled in egg white and crushed walnuts, then filled with a jewel of fruit jam. A classic holiday tea cookie that bakes in 10 minutes.