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.
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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. Buttery, crumbly, and tender.
Versatility: Use your favorite flavor of jam in the filling. Lemon curd would also work.
Recipe overview
*Full recipe below in recipe card*
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.
Prefer to make these large (like the Costco size)? Use a jumbo muffin pan. I have instructions in the recipe card.
Optional garnishes
Dust the cookies with powdered sugar or make a simple icing of powdered sugar, milk, and a drop of vanilla to drizzle over the top. Be sure to cool the cookies before adding the garnish.
Storage
Store tightly covered at room temperature for up to three days or freeze for up to 3 months. Serve at room temperature.
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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.
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Nutrition
Nutritional Information is an estimate based on third-party calculations and may vary based on products used and serving sizes.
Tried this recipe?Leave a comment and rating below!
Lee
The problem I had with this dough is that it seems too dry/dusty when it’s mixed up and is very dry/falls apart after it’s baked. I measured carefully. Did I use too much flour? Seems like it needs liquid to hold it together
Allison
Hi, Lee. The mixture is crumbly but when you pack it into the muffin pan it will be fine. Once the butter melts in the oven it will hold together.
Linda
These are amazing and so simple! I doubled the recipe and it turned out perfect. I will use this recipe many times!
Allison
I’m so glad! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Nancy
Rich flavored cookie with subtle sweetness of raspberry jam filling. Just takes minutes to make. Came out very easily from the pan. They were the hit of the sweet table. I made all of the cookies for the sweet table but these were the star. I baked them, cooled and froze them. Two weeks later I thawed them and served them. They tasted like I had just baked them that day.
Lisa Butler
Do I need to store these in the refrigerator?
Allison
No, cool room temperature is fine.
Jill
Your overall recipe says to chill for 3 hours….at what point do you chill?
Allison
After baking they have to cool so that they are easy to remove from the pan. This takes a few hours at room temperature.
Maria Giachini
Have you ever tried using the mini cupcake pan for smaller cookies?
Allison
I haven’t, but it should work. You’ll just have to play around with the amounts of dough/jam and the bake time.
Lucie
Would I be able to make these “mini” using a mini muffin pan?
Allison
That should be fine.
kay
these were delicious. I brought them to my friend house and everyone raved about them. I did raspberry for half the tray and lemon curd for the other half Delicious!
Allison
Great idea! I’m glad you enjoyed them. 🙂
Lynn
Has anyone made a vanilla glaze glaze and drizzle over the top of these? I’m going to try that. 😊
Mary M
These look great. Hopefully I will get to make some soon. Sure wish I could find raspberry jam/jelly without the seeds!
Tammy Powell
These were so easy and so delicious!! I used blueberry preserves since that is what I had on hands. I will be making these again soon!!
Allison
That’s great to hear! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂