Can someone please pick holes in my idea of making homemade Jammie Dodgers?

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Shortbread dough, rolled out into large rounds. Small heart shape cut into one round. Rolled out thinner than normal shortbread - so consequently the cooking time would be reduced - by how much do you think? Put raspberry jam in the cut out heart shape before it's baked - do you think this will burn and that I should put it in halfway through baking?

Glue together with a little jam and buttercream.

Any thoughts? Trying to do something different for the school cake sale. TIA

sounds delicious.

Sounds lovely and I have shamelessly stolen the idea for our Fair. W ould put the jam in halfway through though, I think it would burn.

Nigella has a recipe for home made Custard Creams which I haven't tried yet.

might be better to assemble after cooking, you could heat the jam in a pan to make it more glazey.

Look on the bbc good food website, recipe listed under red nose cookies - basically home made jammie dodger recipe. I think they will be very popuar

Thanks everyone! Will look up that Nigella recipe -do you think it would be on the internet?

fishie, that sounds intriguing! Would jam set in the shortbread if I heated it in a pan and then poured it into the baked shortbread heart hole? How long should I heat it for? Do you think it needs to boil? TIA

I wouldn't boil the jam - just gently warm

Then sandwich together with it & squeeze a bit to get it to fill the whole

Or if you left it to semi-set on the bottom half, the put the top bit on & fill the hole with more warm jam