Jam Drop Biscuits - Real Recipes from Mums

Lovely little biscuits that are simple to make and also a good way to use up extra home made jams.

Ingredients (makes 48 biscuits)

250 grams butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essense
1 egg
3 cups plain flour
1/2 cup jam (any flavour)

Method

Preheat oven to 180 degrees
Cream butter and sugar together.
Add egg and vanilla essence. Beat well.
Sift and add flour to make a stiff dough. Refrigerate dough for 30 minutes.
Roll teaspoons of dough into balls placing them on a tray lined with baking paper.
Make a well in the middle of the ball using the back of a wooden spoon (this will also flatten them down). Put around 1/2 teaspoon of jam into the well.
Bake for 10-12 minutes. Allow to cool before eating as jam will be quite hot.

Notes

Also nice with lemon curd and any type of jam. Can add spices to the biscuit mix to give a different flavour combination to match with the jam filling (ginger, cinnamon etc).

83 Comments

- - cassy26 said
  - 02 Jul 2024
    12:44 pm
Awww these bring back memories of my lovely nanna.

- - Blossom said
  - 15 Sep 2019
    11:01 pm
The biscuits flavour could be varied by adding a little cinnamon. Having choices of jam you can make some of different flavours, not all the same for variety

- - mom112023 said
  - 29 Aug 2018
    6:48 am
Yum. Thanks for the recipe. Love the Lemon curd idea.

- - mom93821 said
  - 29 May 2017
    6:40 am
These biscuits with homemade jam is always the best – simple and easy homemade biscuits.
- mom93821 replied
  
  30 May 2017 , 5:41 am
  I also like to use different types of jam – whatever I have made and is in the pantry.
- - mom109229 said
  - 30 Jun 2015
    9:16 pm
These look delicious! Thanks for sharing!

- - Kell said
  - 28 Jun 2015
    7:25 pm
oh these remind me of my childhood thanks

- - mom94125 said
  - 10 Nov 2014
    4:09 pm
i love this classic recipe. so easy and so yummy

- - mom94125 said
  - 18 Oct 2014
    9:34 am
this looks like a great recipe
thank you

- - maureen3 said
  - 17 Oct 2014
    1:07 pm
Thanks for sharing this recipe

- - shortaez said
  - 08 Oct 2014
    5:01 pm
Jam drop biscuits are the best

- - ginoula5 said
  - 09 Aug 2014
    11:26 am
love jam drop biscuits, would be wonderful also using peach jam for this

- - gem1991 said
  - 25 Jul 2014
    1:35 pm
Yum this recipe looks fantastic!

- - gem1991 said
  - 16 Jul 2014
    5:51 pm
this looks delicious!! might have to try.

- - mom57522 said
  - 25 Jun 2014
    4:32 pm
I remember my mum making these!

- - Mrs Bucket (that's pronounced Bouquet) said
  - 30 May 2014
    3:02 pm
Another biscuit my Grandmother used to make, haven’t had these ones since childhood, thanks for the recipe.

- - kazh said
  - 28 May 2014
    11:41 pm
These look great. I always end up with a tiny spot of jam in the middle of a massive biscuit.

- - nida saeed said
  - 22 May 2014
    11:07 pm
This just reminded me there is strawberry jam in my fridge( not been used for quite long time now) and I am awful at making biscuits. But her kids won’t say no to jam biscuits. I am sure so will definitely be making it. Thanks for recipe

- - scottie said
  - 20 May 2014
    1:19 pm
I am going to have to make a batch of these now

- - cheezel said
  - 04 Apr 2014
    11:21 am
I made these and they really are so easy and very tasty

- - shazzbot said
  - 12 Mar 2014
    11:41 am
I am certainly looking forward to making them. Yum. Thank you.