148 james jam recipes

Quick apricot kolachky filling with apricot preserves, shredded coconut, and chopped pecans or walnuts. Three ingredients, five minutes, refrigerate until ready to fill your pastry dough.

Rugalach rolls cream cheese dough around apricot preserves, cinnamon-sugar, ground pecans, and currants into bite-sized crescent cookies. The Jewish-American holiday cookie passed down through generations of bakers.

A glazed Christmas ham brushed with apricot-sherry glaze, warmed with cinnamon and star anise, and crusted in brown sugar, served with a crisp, fresh fennel coleslaw in a herby yogurt dressing. A festive feast pairing.

Butter-sautéed bananas in an apricot-orange sauce, flambéed tableside with rum or brandy. A dramatic 20-minute French dessert served over ice cream or with whipped cream.

Peanut butter dip with fruit jam, molasses, vinegar, and sesame seeds blended into a bold, sweet-tangy spread. A big-batch dip for parties, picnics, or snacking with fruit and crackers.

Classic stovetop rolled oats cooked in 5 minutes and topped with your choice of butter, brown sugar, honey, jam, or cream. Simple, customizable breakfast oatmeal.

Honey almond heart cookies made with whole wheat and all-purpose flour, rolled thin and cut into heart shapes. Fill with a thumbprint of jam for a sweet, naturally sweetened Valentine's treat.

Cream cheese rugelach filled with raspberry jam, cinnamon brown sugar, cocoa, and hazelnuts. Flaky crescent cookies that freeze beautifully baked or unbaked.

This Swiss monastery tart has a cocoa-almond-cinnamon shortcrust filled with raspberry jam and topped with a golden lattice. A rustic European bake with roots in St. Gallen's monastic kitchens.

London strips: layered cookie bars with a buttery shortbread base, strawberry jam filling, and a bourbon-walnut meringue topping dusted with powdered sugar.

Dense, fudgy brownies made with real unsweetened chocolate and loaded with chopped walnuts, then layered with raspberry jam and a glossy chocolate glaze. Finished with chocolate-dipped walnuts for a bakery-worthy presentation.

Try making the French version of apple pie today that's both scrumptious and healthy for you.

Ischler cookies are an Austrian classic from Bad Ischl: ground-almond shortbread rounds sandwiched with raspberry jam and crowned with espresso-spiked chocolate icing. Spa-town pastry royalty.

Mile-high three-layer chocolate celebration cake for a crowd, filled with raspberry jam and orange marmalade, frosted with mocha cream cheese buttercream. Party show-stopper.

Fudgy chocolate raspberry brownies with a hidden layer of raspberry preserves sandwiched between rich unsweetened chocolate batter loaded with toasted walnuts.

Singing cake, a heritage spice-and-chocolate Bundt loaded with raisins, nuts, strawberry jam, and unsweetened chocolate, in a buttermilk batter lifted by whipped egg whites. Named for the hissing sound it makes baking.