Joylicious Jam Filled Butter Ring Cookies

 An easy to make, delicious treat.

  Ingredients:

1 Cup (250 gms) butter or margarine

1/2 Cup sugar

3 Cups sifted flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

Jam

Icing sugar

Jam Filled Butter Rings

  Method:

1.  Cream together butter or margarine and sugar. Beat until light and fluffy. Add flour and salt and mix well.
2.  Roll out to a thickness of 1/8 inch and cut with a floured 3-inch round cookie cutter. Cut out centers of half of the cookies with a 1 1/2 inch cutter.
3.  Bake on an ungreased tray at 200 C (400 F) for about 10 minutes. Cool.
4.  Spread whole cookies with jam, piled high in the center. Top with cookie rings. Sprinkle with icing sugar.

 (Source: Wonderful Ways to Prepare Cakes & Cookies by Jo Ann Shirley)