Peach Cookies

Total Time Prep: 1-3/4 hours Bake: 15 min./batch + cooling
Yield about 3-1/2 dozen
Test Kitchen Approved
These peach cookies look like real peaches and taste like them too! Peach schnapps enhances the peach flavor throughout, including in the peach preserves filling.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup confectioners' sugar
  • 2 large eggs, room temperature
  • 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup sour cream
  • 1 tablespoon peach schnapps liqueur
  • 3-2/3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • FILLING:
  • 1/2 cup peach preserves
  • 1 tablespoon peach schnapps liqueur
  • DECORATING:
  • 2/3 cup peach schnapps liqueur
  • Red and yellow food coloring
  • Sugar for coating
  • Optional: Green candy or frosting leaves

Directions

  1. In a large bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy, 3-4 minutes. Beat in eggs, lemon zest and vanilla. Add sour cream and peach schnapps. Whisk flour, baking powder and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture.
  2. With lightly greased hands, roll dough into 3/4-in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets; flatten slightly. Bake at 350° for 13-15 minutes or until firm. Remove to wire racks.
  3. While cookies are warm, use a sharp knife and small spoon to cut and scoop out about 1/2 teaspoon of crumbs from the bottom of each cookie; set crumbs aside for filling. Cool cookies completely.
  4. In a small bowl, combine the filling ingredients; stir in reserved crumbs. Spoon into 2 cookies; spread a thin amount of filling on cookie bottoms and press together to form a peach. Repeat with remaining cookies and filling.
  5. To decorate, divide peach schnapps into 2 small bowls. Add red food coloring to 1 bowl and yellow food coloring to the other. Place sugar into a third dish.
  6. Dip half of each cookie sandwich into the yellow mixture, then dip the other half into the red mixture. Immediately roll in sugar. Decorate with a green candy or frosting leaf as desired. Repeat with remaining cookies.

Nutrition Facts

1 cookie: 107 calories, 5g fat (3g saturated fat), 22mg cholesterol, 101mg sodium, 14g carbohydrate (5g sugars, 0 fiber), 2g protein.

I combined a few different recipes to make these peach cookies. I would make them for wedding cookie tables, which are a big thing around Pittsburgh. They are time-consuming, but I believe the cookies look pretty and taste very good. —Nancy Pappas, Evans City, Pennsylvania
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