Aunt Gussie's Filled Drop Cookies

Jelly filled drop cookies

• Ready In: 55 mins
• Serves: 12
• Yields: 4 dozen filled

Ingredients

• 1  cup creamed shortening (Experiment with coconut oil, crisco, butter)
• 2  cups brown sugar
• 2  eggs (room temp)
• 3 1⁄2 cups  sifted flour (experiment with coconut flour)
• 1  teaspoon salt (Himalayan, sea, or table)
• 1⁄2 cup buttermilk (room temp)
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon

Directions

1. Cream shortening,, sugar, and eggs well.
2. Sift flour, salt, soda, and cinnamon together.
3. Add alternately with buttermilk.
4. Put in vanilla last.
5. Very sticky dough. Need to flour hands after you grease pan.
6. Flour teaspoons also so it will be easy to drop and make indention.
7. Drop rounded tsp (on ungreased cookie sheet) of dough and use back to make indention or "thumbprint".
8. In the indention add 1/2 tsp of selected jam or jelly (any flavor is ok).
9. then drop small amount of dough on top (for filled) or leave open for "thumbprint".