Jam Print Cookies Recipe
Jam Print Cookies Recipe
Author: Cynthia Lee
Nutrition Information
- Serves: 35
- Calories: 80
- Fat: 5 g
- Saturated fat: 0 g
- Trans fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 8 g
- Sugar: 0 g
- Sodium: 37 mg
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 13 mg
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
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Thumbprint cookies are one of those favourites that have a place on any occasion. They are a perfect integration of nuts, jam and delicate buttery cookies. The recipe is great to get children involved in, let them make the indents and fill the jam.
Ingredients
- Butter (2 sticks or 8 ounces), room temperature - 1 cup
- Sugar - ½ cup
- Eggs - 2
- Vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon
- Pinch of salt
- Flour - 2 cups
- Chopped nuts (optional) - 1 cup
- Your favorite jam - ¾ cup
Instructions
- Take a mixing bowl and beat the sugar and butter on high speed for around 3 minutes.
- In another bowl, separate the eggs.
- Keep the whites in a different bowl and whisk them until fluffy.
- Add the yolks and vanilla extract to the sugar and butter mixture.
- If you will be using nuts in the cookies, the egg whites will be used to keep them on.
- Add the salt and flour to the butter mixture.
- Mix it with a spoon until the flour is combined.
- Make it into a dough and refrigerate it for half an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
- Take the dough out and make balls out of it of one inch diameter.
- If you want to add nuts, dip the balls into the egg whites and roll them into the nuts.
- Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper and place the balls on them one inch apart.
- With the help of your thumb, make an indent into the cookies.
- A sort of a well will form in the middle of each cookie.
- Do not apply a lot of pressure on them as they can fall apart.
- Fill the well with half tablespoon of jam.
- Bake the cookies for 12 to 15 minutes.
- They will be firm when they are done and the bottoms will be golden brown.
- Let them cool on the baking sheet for five minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool further.