Nowadays, I’m learning how to make American food and desserts. It’s fun to bake. Unfortunately, one weird thing about me is that I don’t like sweet things: ice-cream, candy, cake, pie, or cookies except fruit flavor candy. But I love cooking, baking, and eating. Good grief, if I liked to eat desserts, my belly will be 10 times bigger than now. hehe … Plus, my honey loves desserts, so I can enjoy baking desserts and he can enjoy eating them. 
Anyway, I tried a cookie recipe from a baking book that I got recently. It is a 500+ page heavy duty book that got on sale for only 5 dollars. ASSA!!! The recipe was called “Raspberry Sandwich Cookies.” Since I didn’t have any raspberry jam, I used homemade strawberry jam that my sister-in-law made instead. It worked pretty good. Maybe it was because of her yummy strawberry jam? hehe 
My husband gave 4 stars out of 5 for this recipe. Here is the recipe for you, if you want…hehe
Ingredients:
- 1 Cup Almonds
- 1½ Cups Flour
- ¾ Cup (1½ Sticks) Butter, at room temperature
- ½ Cup Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 Egg White
- 1/8 tsp Salt
- ⅓ Cup Chopped Almonds
- 1 Cup Raspberry Jam (or Strawberry Jam)
- 1 Tbsp Fresh Lemon Juice
Yield: About 30 Cookies
Directions
- Place the almonds and 3 Tbsp of the flour in a blender and process until finely ground. Set it aside.
- Mix the butter and sugar together in an electric mixer until they are light and fluffy. Stir in the vanilla. Add the ground almonds and remaining flour. Mix well to form a dough. Gather into a ball, wrap in wax paper, and refrigerator for about an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 325˚F. Line 2 cookie sheets with wax paper.
- Divide the dough into 4 equal pieces. Roll out one piece of the dough to a thickness of 1/8 inch on a lightly floured surface. With a 2½-inch round cookie cutter (or a glass,) stamp out circles. Roll out the leftover dough again, and stamp out more circles. Continue until no dough remains.
- Find something to stamp out the centers with – about ¾ inch. I used a tip used for icing. Only cut out the centers from half of the cookies. Place dough rings and circles ½ inch apart on the cookie sheets.
- Whisk the egg white with the salt until frothy. Brush only the cookie rings with the egg white, then sprinkle the chopped almonds on top. Bake until very lightly browned – about 12-15 minutes. Let them cool for a few minutes on the cookie sheets before transferring them to a rack.
- In a saucepan, melt the jam with the lemon juice. Brush the jam over the cookie circles and then put the rings on top.
These are wonderful! However, not American per se, but rather Austrian — delicious!! And fantastic photos
Hi Aeri!
Love your recipes!
I’m trying to make this recipe right now, but the directions say to add cream but the ingredients don’t include it. What kind of cream is it?
Thanks so much! ^^
hi Danielle,
You got right.. thanks..
Oops,, sorry.. it was mistake.. it’s just sugar and butter.. no cream.
oh a cookies without baking power !!
oh in the directions the 2nd step says mix CREAM, butter and suger
what cream !? there is no cream in the ingredients
hi Keletam,
sorry.. I meant.. when you mix butter and sugar.. that’s cream..but you are right.. there is no cream in the ingredients.. so forget about cream.. sorry.. and thanks..^^
are you in korea? do you know where i can buy almond paste in korea? i’m teaching english here and i have baking cravings.
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Hi, bets
Nice to meet you !!!
Oh.. you are living in Korea.
I’m in USA now.. I just researched something for you.
This site seems good one for buying backing stuff..
http://www.ibaking.net/shopping/shopping-detail.php?pi=2615
If you need any more help.. please feel free to ask me..
those cookies look awesome!!!! Yami! BUT, I am the same as you are, don’t really like anything sweet. My husband and his family say I am weird. =) But I like to bake too. I make the same cookies but without any nuts… my husband doesn’t like nuts.. instead I put some coconut. =)
Hi, Tanya
haha.. another same thing with me… Yep..we are weird girls..hehe oh..really ?? my husband doesn’t like cocunut..lol.. thanks for comment !!
WOW! I L-O-V-E cookies and these look so perfect! your husband is so lucky he got to eat that!
Hi, arleen !!
I will tell my husband what you said ~~~ hehe (I AGREE IT !!!)
Huk~~ I missed your comment .. sorry.
Oops, recipe, even. I tried your Hoddok today. It’s been over 30 years since I last tried one. Thanks
Hi, Younghee
HEHE..I hope you enjoyed your hoddok. Okay, I will add the recipe here..RIGHT NOW !! Thanks for visiting my site. Happy Holidays !!
Nice to meet you!! WOW you are a Korean right ??
Yes please!! I’d like to try the receipe. The biscuits look super!! ^^