Homemade Jammy Dodger Recipe!

Hi guys! Sorry it has been so very long but life happened I’m afraid! The day finally came where we had to travel halfway across the UK to my parents’ house and collect up my essential things…of course for me this means I finally got all my baking stuff!!!!! (Strokes ceramic mixing bowl and cuddles cake tins).

So I thought what better way to return than with a baking recipe with actual equipment! Now my other half LOVES jammy dodgers but I am not a fan of the price that they can be, so I decided to take it upon myself to see if I could replicate them with my own special twist.

The recipe that I came up with used a very basic biscuit recipe along with my favorite jam, the outcome was pretty good and they went down very well indeed with a cup of lady grey tea!

This recipe will give you between 10-15 jammy dodgers depending on the size of cookie cutter you use and can easily be completed from start to finish in an hour.

Things you will need:

-          100g of caster sugar

-          200g of unsalted butter

-          300g of self-raising flour

-          A small pinch of salt

-          Your favorite jam

Step 1: In a large bowl, combine the sugar and butter, mix together until the mixture becomes light in texture and color.

Step 2: Slowly start to combine the flour in with your mix along with a small pinch of salt, the result will be a very light in texture dough which is quite crumbly, feel free to add water or more flour to get a texture you are comfortable working with.

Step 3: Turn your dough out onto a floured surface and use a rolling pin to roll out the dough to a rough thickness of about 1 cm, use a cookie cutter to cut out all of your circles, remember to end up with an even number.

Step 4: Use a smaller cutter or a bottle cap to punch a hole in the center of half of all the cookies; this creates the signature hole in the top of a jammy dodger.

Step 5: Transfer all cookies over to a baking tray which is lined and greased before placing them in your preheated oven for 10-15 minutes or until the tops have turned golden, don’t worry if they seem a little soft, they will harden as they cool.

Step 6: As soon as they come out of the oven, sprinkle them with a small amount of sugar just to give it a little finishing touch and leave them to cool completely before removing from the sheet, be careful when you do as the half with the holes in the middle are quite delicate.

Step 7: Take the half without a hole in the middle and spread a thin layer of your favorite jam across them, place the half with the holes on top of them to finish off your homemade jammy dodgers!

And there you go! One simple yet easy jammy dodger recipe for you to replicate at home!

Why not mix things up and use different flavors of jam? Why not try apricot or blackberry jam for an alternative jammy dodger? The options are endless!

Thank you so much for sticking around while I have been absent and expect loads of new recipes coming your way soon!