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    Home » Recipes

    Soft Sour Cream Cookies Filled With Jam

    Published: Dec 16, 2020 by Sonila · This post may contain affiliate links · 4 Comments

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    These Soft Sour Cream Cookies filled with Jam are typical throughout the Balkans and some Eastern European countries. I’ve even seen variations of these in other cuisines as well. In my native country they’re known as Kifle or Biskota me Recel.

    A plate with lots of rolled up crescent shape cookies that seem filled with jam.
    Soft Sour Cream Cookies Filled With Jam

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    Filling for Cookies

    These sour cream cookies are soft and not so sweet. They melt in your mouth!! Most of the sweetness comes from the filling and it creates such a balanced cookie! The cookies shown in this recipe are filled with my Blueberry Apple Jam. Typical fillings in the Balkan area are:

    • Jam – blueberry, quince, plum, apple
    • Nuts – walnuts, hazelnuts or almonds
    • Chocolate – Nutella or any chocolate filling
    A plate with lots of rolled up crescent shape cookies that seem filled with jam.
    Albanian Cookies with Blueberry Jam

    Traditionally, in my native country of Albania we serve cookies with Turkish coffee and water to guests visiting our house. If we don’t have baked goods, then we serve spoon sweets with coffee and water.

    Since I’ve lived most of my adult life in the States, I have adopted new customs and traditions and weaved in my own. So every December we bake these cookies and fill them with whatever jam I have at home. It’s baking season and my kids love these cookies!

    Tips and Notes

    These cookies are surprisingly easy to make. Make the dough, flatten, cut into shapes, add jam, roll and bake. Some of the below tips are best practices I use to make the cookies and some are answers to my readers questions that I thought might be helpful to everyone:).

    Several ingredients laid out for making the sour cream cookies. Flour, vanilla, eggs, yeast, sour cream, milk, sugar, butter and jam.
    Ingredients Needed for Making Cookies

    I prefer these cookies dusted with confectioner sugar, but you can eat them as they are or roll them in granulated sugar while they’re still warm, out of the oven.

    Tip: refrigerate the dough for at least 30 minutes before you start working it, otherwise dough is not easy to roll.

    After cooling the dough, separate in 3 different balls. Flatten each with a rolling pin to form an even circle, about quarter inch thick. It helps to use a surface with dusted flour in it so dough doesn’t stick. I used a thinner rolling stick from my native country called ‘okllai‘ but you can use a traditional rolling pin.

    A big roll of dough flattened with a skinny rolling pin
    Flattening the Dough

    As soon as you flatten the dough, cut in 8 pieces like you would with a pizza. On the corner of each slice, add jam or your favorite filling with a spoon. Usually I try half a teaspoon. You don’t want to add too much because it will spill over on the sides while baking. Also, jam shouldn’t be too runny.

    Dough flattened in a circle on a dusted with flour surface. Dough is cut into pizza shape slices, each has a spoon of jam placed in the corner. Dough is ready to roll.
    Flattened Dough with Jam Ready to Roll

    Roll each slice starting from the wider end, over the jam and then continue rolling. Place cookies onto parchment paper on a baking sheet. Try to work fast so cookies don’t lose their shape.

    You can tilt the ends of the cookie to form a real crescent shape.

    A rolled cookie, unbaked over a surface with flour
    Rolling The Cookie

    Bake for a short time at 350 degrees Fahrenheit (about 176 degrees Celsius, round up to 180). Usually it takes about 10-11 minutes to bake. Let the cookies cool on a cooling rack after baking. This helps the jam set and not spill from the sides.

    Just baked crescent rolled cookies on a baking sheet.
    Just Baked Cookies
    Soft jam filled cookies in crescent shape. They're covered in confectioner's sugar.

    Soft Sour Cream Cookies Filled With Jam

    These soft Sour Cream Cookies filled with jam are characteristic in the Balkan area and throughout Europe in different variations. I filled them with blueberry jam but you can use nuts or chocolate as well:). They're the perfect treat for the holidays!
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    Course Dessert
    Cuisine Albanian, Balkan, European
    Servings 24 servings
    Calories 68 kcal

    Ingredients
      

    • 2 cups all purpose flour
    • 2 eggs
    • 1 tbsp sugar
    • 12 tsp jam I used blueberry apple jam from my recipes but feel free to use jam of your choice!
    • 1 tsp vanilla extract
    • 1 butter stick room temperature
    • ⅓ cup warm milk
    • 0.5 packet Active Yeast
    • ⅓ cup sour cream
    • 3 tbsps confectioner sugar for garnish

    Instructions
     

    • Activate the yeast by pouring half of an active yeast packet into warm milk. Add the sugar as well and mix well. Set aside.
    • Prepare the dough – beat egg yolks with a hand held mixer. Slowly add sour cream and vanilla and continue mixing. Add the milk/yeast mixture and continue mixing. Slowly add flour and incorporate. At this point use a spoon or your hands to mix since the hand held mixer won't be able to mix the dough. Finally add butter at room temperature.
    • Refrigerate dough for at least half an hour, longer if you can.
    • Get dough from refrigerator, knead it few times. Separate in 3 balls of dough and put them aside. Flatten each ball with a rolling pin into a circular shape. Cut in 8 slices. Place half a teaspoon of jam on each then roll onto crescent shapes. Place each cookie on parchment paper on a baking sheet.
    • Make sure oven is pre-heated at 350 degrees F. Bake cookies for about 10-12 minutes depending on the oven. Usually I know cookies are done once they get a golden color.
    • Cool the cookies on a cooling rack. Garnish with confectioner's sugar if you prefer.

    Notes

    • Serving is estimated at 1 cookie per person, but believe me you won’t be able to stop at just one! I just wanted to mention this in case you are calorie conscious! I personally stop counting calories during the holidays:)

    Nutrition Label

    Nutrition Facts
    Soft Sour Cream Cookies Filled With Jam
    Amount Per Serving
    Calories 68 Calories from Fat 9
    % Daily Value*
    Fat 1g2%
    Saturated Fat 1g6%
    Cholesterol 16mg5%
    Sodium 11mg0%
    Potassium 28mg1%
    Carbohydrates 12g4%
    Fiber 1g4%
    Sugar 4g4%
    Protein 2g4%
    Vitamin A 45IU1%
    Vitamin C 1mg1%
    Calcium 12mg1%
    Iron 1mg6%
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 68kcalCarbohydrates: 12gProtein: 2gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 16mgSodium: 11mgPotassium: 28mgFiber: 1gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 45IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 12mgIron: 1mg
    Keyword Jam filled cookies, Kifle, Sour Cream Cookies
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    Soft Sour Cream Cookies With Jam

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    Filed Under: Albanian, Desserts, Recipes Tagged With: Balkan Cuisine, Christmas, Cookies

    About Sonila

    Mom of 2, wife, engineer, food blogger & recipe creator! Sonila was born in Albania, her heritage inspires her Mediterranean recipes while that of her husband the Latin ones. Sonila has 2 degrees in Engineering from University of Miami.

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    Comments

    1. Ellen

      December 17, 2020 at 3:53 pm

      Thank you for the quick response … my grandson (10 yrs. old) wants to know if we’re having “Sonila food” for dinner tonight .. every recipe I’ve tried is so good and such a hit with my family!
      E.

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      • Sonila

        January 13, 2021 at 10:28 am

        Hi Ellen, hope you are doing great and New Year is finding you well!! AS promised here is my kulac recipe,https://mediterraneanlatinloveaffair.com/albanian-soda-bread-kulac/ Feel free to ask questions in comments or email me if you have any questions. There are versions with eggs, mine doesn’t have eggs. At home we only made it with yogurt. However, if you would like to add eggs, keep all ingredients the same, add 1 egg then use less water to form the dough. All the best:)

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    2. Ellen

      December 17, 2020 at 2:02 pm

      OMG!!!!! These are so-o -o delicious – my family loved them and have put in a request for a TRIPLE batch next time around. OK – it’s official request time …. in January (when you do updates) could you please include Albanian recipes for Petula me Veze and Halva? I need to add these to my Albanian recipes book and also the Kulac recipe …….. thanks, Sonila!
      “Irish” Ellen

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      • Sonila

        December 17, 2020 at 2:20 pm

        You’re awesome!! I love the feedback!! I doubted posting the recipe because my pictures didn’t come out as nice, so I wasn’t sure it was good enough!! I was making these cookies with my son so he was helping me roll them and I was taking some pictures in between.
        Petulla was already in my list. Added Kulac from your last message and will do halva too. Happy Holidays to you and your family Ellen!

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