This delicious treat is a cross between a tart and a cookie. It features a buttery shortbread crust, raspberry jam filling, and a sweet and crumbly topping. Enjoy these Raspberry Crumble Cookies alongside a cup of coffee or tea for breakfast, dessert, or a snack.
This recipe is a copycat of Costco’s Raspberry Crumble Cookies. Truth be told, I’ve never actually tried the Costco version, but I am thrilled with how easy, delicious, and versatile this recipe is. I hope you love them just as much as we do.
Why you’ll love this recipe
Ease: The crust and topping are made from the same mixture and store bought jam is used for the filling.
Flavor: Sweet and buttery with a hint of fruitiness.
Texture: Similar texture to shortbread and a crumble topping.
Versatility: Use your favorite flavor of jam in the filling. Lemon curd would also work.
Recipe overview
Make the crust/topping. Using a hand mixer or stand mixer, beat butter, flour, sugar, vanilla extract, almond extract, and salt until the butter is broken down into small pieces and the mixture looks crumbly.
Using a 2-tablespoon scoop, add dough into greased standard-size muffin cups. Flatten to form the crust.
Add jam onto each crust.
Sprinkle with with remaining dough and bake.
Recipe tips
Be sure your butter is chilled when making the dough.
A two-tablespoon cookie scoop and a two-teaspoon cookie scoop work great for portioning out the crust and the jam.
Use a shot glass or small espresso cup to pack the crust into each muffin cup.
Play around with different flavors of jam to find your favorite.
Optional garnishes: Dust with powdered sugar (after cooling) or make a simple icing of powdered sugar, milk, and a drop of vanilla to drizzle over the top.
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Recipe
Raspberry Crumble Cookies
Ingredients
- 1¼ cup all purpose flour
- ½ cup chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup raspberry jam/preserves, or any other flavor you'd prefer
- powdered sugar, optional garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F with a rack in the middle of the oven.
- With a hand mixer of stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat flour, butter, sugar, extracts, and salt until the mixture because crumbly and the pieces of butter are pea-sized or smaller.
- Grease a 12-count muffin pan (see notes for jumbo muffin pan) OR line with paper liners*. Using a 2-tablespoon scoop (loosely measured, not packed), transfer 2 tablespoons of dough into each muffin cup. Once you've filled all 12 you should have about 1 cup of crumbs left for the topping. Use a small glass (like a shot glass or espresso cup) or your fingers to pack the dough into each muffin cup.
- Fill each cup with about 2 teaspoons of jam and lightly spread it around. Try not to take it all the way to the edges.
- Crumble remaining dough over the top of the jam layer. Bake for about 20 minutes, until the jam is bubbling and the edges are golden brown. Place on a wire rack to cool completely. You can even speed this up by placing them in the fridge for a bit.
- Run a thin sharp knife around the edges of each cookie to help you remove them. Dust with powdered sugar, if desired.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional Information is an estimate based on third-party calculations and may vary based on products used and serving sizes.
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Nancy woodruff
This easy jam bar cookie packs a lot of flavor. Super cute too since they are baked in muffin tins. Perfect for a hostess gift or for a wedding or shower sweet table.
Allison
I’m glad you enjoyed them! 🙂
Nancy woodruff
Packed with flavor. These jam bars are baked in a muffin pan. Easy to make. The perfect little round jammy treats are perfect when you want to impress because they have great “curb appeal”.The plus? Can be made with any flavor of jam or preserves and it’s impossible to goof up.
Debra Udraufski
So easy to make and delicious. Love that you can make a batch and put different flavours in them. Great for a baby shower. Definitely making these again. A great change from cake.
Allison
I’m glad you enjoyed them! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Priscilla Hamel
Can these made in the mini tartlet pan??
Allison
Most likely. You’d have to play around with proportions.
Josie
These are so simple & delicious. I used strawberry preserves, and also added lemon extract to the dough instead of almond. So good!
Allison
I’m glad you enjoyed them! 🙂
Linda G.
I have two questions. 1). Recipe says 3 hours chill time on top where it shows how long it takes to prepare and quantity it yields, however in instructions it does not say to chill the dough. Can you please clarify that; and 2) can they be frozen after baking. I want to make for Thanksgiving, so a prompt reply would be so appreciated. Thank you.