Homemade Jammy Dodgers | Recipe

I made a vow to myself back in 2018 {saying that like it was ages ago!}, that this year, I would inject more great content into my blog. One of those vows is to make more recipes to share on my little space. Now, I love a jammy dodger, do you? So I thought to make a batch of homemade jammy dodgers {which will be a first for me} would be a fun start. 

I don’t know about you, but Jammy Dodgers make me think if Doctor Who. The eleventh Doctor to be exact {if you’re not a Who fan, I am referring to the era of Matt Smith aka My Doctor}. Who I was also lucky enough to meet at the London Comic Con last year. After the meet, I honestly didn’t know whether to laugh, cry or stuff my face with a whole packet of jammy dodgers! 

However…

I am not a pro-baker – not by any means. Nor am I any good at taking food-related photos! I am just a Mum who refuses to not be able to do something. Whether I do it well or not is another feat entirely! But, I am a gal who loves to give things a ruddy good go! So, making this recipe is a first for me and I hope it inspires you to give it a go, too. Because, let’s face it – if I can do it, anyone can! I mean, it’s biscuits – what can go wrong? 

What you’ll need:

• 250g Plain flour
• 200g Salted butter
• 100g Icing sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• Jam of your choice for the filling

The ‘how-to’ part:

• To kick things off, preheat your oven to 170 degrees and grease your baking tray with a touch of butter.
• Rub your flour, butter and icing sugar together until you get a breadcrumb consistency. 
• Add your egg yolk and mix until well combined and turns into a dough. Wrap the dough in cling film and leave to chill in the fridge for up to 30 mins. 
• Once chilled. Flour your surface and turn out the dough. Roll out until it’s around 1.5cm thickness. Use a circle cutter {or a flower one – your choice!}.
• On half of the cut-outs, make the additional centre cut-out. It can be anything you like. I’ve gone with a little star.
• Place your biscuits onto your greased baking tray and bake for 12-15 minutes, or until golden brown. 
• Once baked, bring them out to cool. Once cooled add a layer of jam to one side and sandwich together.
• Dust with a little sugar if you wish. 

A really simple recipe and you can even use different flavours of jam – or even Nutella if you are feeling particularly cheeky! Ours turned out rather lovely {if I don’t say so myself} and the kids even enjoyed helping me out, too. Annabelle forever insists on cutting them out and Ellie was my jam spreader. Talk about delegation! 

Side note: What I learned from doing this recipe is that I need to use a smaller cookie cutter and invest in larger plunger cutters! 

If you take a bash at this wee recipe, do let me know how you get on in the comments below! Or even send me a wee photo over any of my social media channels!

I know one thing for sure, my food photo taking skills need work – massively! I’ll make sure to work on that with my future recipe posts! 

Some other recipes you might like to check out:

Mint Aero Cheesecake Recipe

Mini Chicken Pot Pie Recipe

My Not-so-Pinterest-worthy Brownies

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