Recipe

Step 1: Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Place the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat until light and creamy. Add the egg and beat well.

Step 2: Stir through the flour and baking powder and mix to a dough.

Step 3: Roll 2 tsp of the mixture into balls. Place on a baking tray lined with non-stick baking paper, allowing room for the biscuits to spread, and flatten slightly.

Step 4: Press a finger into the middle of the dough to make an indent. Fill the hole with jam.

Step 5: Bake for 10 minutes or until golden. Add a little more jam to the holes when the biscuits are hot.

Step 6: Cool on wire racks.

Makes 60 cookies

Reprinted with permission from Donna Hay’s Modern Classics Book 2 (2003 HarperCollinsCanada).