One Bowl Marzipan Jam Cookies
Don’t make a mess in the kitchen! These One Bowl Quick Marzipan Jam Cookies use the bowl of one food processor and make short work of your baking adventures.
Dish Count :: 1 Food Processor, 1 Baking Sheet, 1 Small Bowl
Do you ever go to the store and see sweet, wonderful husbands wandering the aisles on the phones with their wives, trying to hunt down the one thing she asked him to go get? I always smile a little, and keep on moving along. I imagine the wives at home, mid-baking project, trying to direct them to the right product, and with many “No, not those ones!”, “This is the right brand”‘s, I only hope that these men find what they are looking for.
Until two weeks ago, when I had to have Ben go do the same thing to find me almond paste. Bless him.
When he made it to the store, with the express need for almond paste, I stared getting more text messages than I usually get in a week from Ben, with photographs of everything that had the word “almond” in it.
Almond pastry filling? Nope.
Shredded almonds? No hunny the paste. *Googles photo of the brand’s can to text him*
Is this it? *Finally gets it right*.
Oh, how many do you need? One. No, get two. Yes, two should do. Lest I undershoot it and he needs to go back!
You really need one pound of almond paste? No, I just want to cover my bases. Hurry, come home Man!
And so Ben did, and these one bowl marzipan jam cookies were finally made. I hope that some sweet woman smiled at him and took pity on him while he traipsed through the aisles, texting his wife frantically as she was at home, mid-recipe, flour smeared, in her yoga pants and praying he would come home with the right paste.
Ben wins for most patient man on the planet. And in return he got these. It was a fair trade.
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One Bowl Marzipan Jam Cookies
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Chill Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: 36 cookies 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Description
Don’t make a mess in the kitchen! These One Bowl Quick Marzipan Jam Cookies use the bowl of one food processor and make short work of your baking adventures.
Ingredients
Marzipan Cookies ::
- 2 1/2 cups Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp Salt,
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/2 cup Almond Paste/Marzipan
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 1/2 cup Butter
- 2 Eggs
- 1/2–3/4 cup Jam – Any Flavor, I used Blackberry Raspberry, and Marionberry
For Drizzle::
- 1 cup Powdered Sugar
- 2 Tbsp Milk
Instructions
- In a food processor, pulse together the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Set aside on a parchment lined baking sheet.
- In food processor bowl, pulse together sugar and almond paste/marzipan until both combined and smooth.
- To the sugar and marzipan blend, combine with butter and eggs and blend until smooth.
- Pulse in the flour, poured into the funnel from the parchment paper. Pulse until dough starts to form and create a ball.
- Divide into four portions, and wrap with plastic wrap. Place in fridge for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. On a lightly floured surface, roll each portion of dough into a 10 inch log.
- Place two logs at a time onto parchment lined baking sheet. Press each log down until they are about 2 inches wide. Bake for 13-15 minutes.
- Remove baking sheet from oven, and with the back of a teaspoon, gently press a channel all the way down the length of the cookies.
- Divide your jam of choice into the channel and smooth onto cookies. Return to oven and bake another 10 minutes, or until golden brown.
- Place on a wire rack to cool. To cut cookies, use a serrated knife to gently saw cookies into diagonal cuts.
- To create drizzle, whisk together milk and powdered sugar, and drizzle over cookies. Serve.
You know i would gladly take a dozen of these! Also, gorgeous photos!
I love that you add a dish count at the top of your recipes. So smart! And I wish my husband would call me from the grocery store. He just comes home with the wrong stuff every time. Love the cookies 🙂
My daughter bought a jar of jam at a farmers market at school and she’s been wanting to make jam cookies – I’m going to send her this recipe! She always loves your recipes Megan!
There’s just something about jam and cookies makes them seem like comfort cookies. love these!!
Absolutely love these! Awesome pis too 🙂
It’s been ages since I had marzipan cookies! These are gorgeous!
I always feel bad when I have to send Alex to the store to get something out of the ordinary. Kudos to Ben!! These cookies are stunning! 😀
I’ve NEVER had a marzipan cookie but seeing these I must change that. They look awesome!
LOVE marzipan, we always do an almond cookie with it for the holidays.
First off, these pictures are GORGEOUS!! These would make the perfect holiday gift, I love them!
I once sent my husband on an ingredient hunt – I don’t know if he will ever go again. Lol. Love these cookies – they look delicious!
I have a serious love affair with marzipan…so I don’t need much convincing that this cookie is delicious!
Marzipan is such a beautiful thing. I’m loving these gorgeous cookies!
That’s literally the story of my (and my husband’s) life. I think he’s memorized the baking aisle of our grocery store at this point, lol. I’m going to have to send him out again soon to get the goods for this recipe!
Jammie cookies are always a good idea for the holidays! Love these marzipan styled ones!
Husbands can be such a help! Mine goes for me too but I don’t think he would have found the paste. 🙂 These look so delicious. Great recipe.
Hahaha yes, sending husbands to the grocery store is just comical…And oftentimes, it’s just easier and faster if I go myself! Good thing your hubby found the almond paste, because it would be a shame to have skipped these beauties!
I’ve given up completely on sending my husband to the store. I always end up having to go back and get the right thing! These cookies look marvelous!
These look so perfect for Christmas….and so do all your other cookies! LOVE!
Your marzipan cookies look wonderful. They would be perfect for the holiday season. Great presentation!!
I freakin’ love marzipan – seriously, just give me a spoon – I’m totally making these!
That jam center is calling me!
Any replacements for marzipan?? These look divine, just not a big fan. Would butter for a shortbread cookie work ?!
Hi Jodi, I haven’t tried to replace the marzipan in this recipe so I can’t testify to the results of any substitutions. But because of the butter already in there, adding more will make these very soft, so I’m not sure if that would be the right sub. If you do try a substitution let me know how it turns out. Maybe try pistachio paste?!
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Just made these and they are great! I subbed 1 Tbsp of brandy for one of the tablespoons of milk in the glaze, yum!
Oh what a fabulous idea, Marnie!! Happy Christmas and thank you so much for letting me know you loved them!
My niece just made these and they were delicious. Personally, I would omit the cinnamon, as it overpowers the taste of the marzipan, and add a bit of almond extract and perhaps a bit of toasted ground almonds. The presentation is gorgeous.
Thank you so much for your review! I’m so pleased that they were a hit, and I’m glad you can customize them next time sans cinnamon to meet your tastes and preferences! I hope you will make them again!
Hi! I just made this and the cookies came out delicious, thank you! <3 There are a few things that are confusing in the recipe, so just a note about wording for the future — remember the readers haven't ever made your recipe before hehe!
The top says YIELD: 36 MINUTES which I think should be 36 cookies?
"Set aside on a parchment lined baking sheet" was an odd thing to do with flour until I read ahead and realized why — trying to cut down on dishes? Anywho I just used a second bowl. 🙂
The dough can totally be kept in wax paper or something else in the fridge, probably even four bowls hehe — definitely doesn't have to be plastic wrap, and heck it's not really even vital for it to be in a certain shape
"on a lightly floured surface, roll each portion of dough into a 10 inch log" This baffled me and I was standing there confused with my rolling pin until I realized you meant to use your hands, and roll it like clay into a log!
The jam amount wasn't nearly enough, although admittedly I was generous — but I used about twice as much!
I also used half the cinnamon and I'm glad, any more would have been too much. 🙂
Anyway thanks so much again! <3 These are so good with tea!
Thanks so much for the feedback, Anna! I’m so so pleased you liked the cookies. And I will make that change in the “minutes” part ha! My fingers must have been typing too fast. I didn’t use too much jam, since a couple times I made them, if I wasn’t using the right type it would liquify too much and run over. Now I need to make some and have a cuppa!