Southern Butter Cookies with Strawberry Preserves

Don't forget to order your copy of
Mom's Pantry's By Heart Cookbook!

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes

Yield: 18 cookies

These are perfect tea time cookies. You can change the filling to your favorite flavor -- peach, apricot, even figs. They're not only delicious, they're super easy and made from common pantry ingredients.

Ingredients

1 cup butter, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
2 cups flour

Glaze:

1 cup confectioner sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice

Instructions

Heat oven to 350°F.

Cream together sugar and butter until fluffy. Add in egg yolk and mix well.

Add in flour, 1 cup at a time, until you've made a soft dough.

Shape into 1 inch balls and place on cookie sheet.

Imprint your thumb in each cookie and fill will strawberry preserves.

Bake for 10 minutes.

Combine icing sugar and lemon juice and drizzle the glaze over top of each cookie. Allow to cool.