Thumb Print Cookies Recipe
Thumb Print Cookies Recipe
Author: Cynthia Lee
Nutrition Information
- Serves: 4
- 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 a classic. You will commonly find these cookies in tea parties, bakery shelves, cookie jars etc. A combination of butter, jam and nuts, these cookies are easy to make and taste heavenly.
Ingredients
- Butter - 1 cup at room temperature
- Sugar - ½ cup
- Eggs - 2, room temperature
- Vanilla extract 1 tsp
- Salt - pinch
- Flour - 2 cup
- Chopped nuts (optional) - 1 cup
- Jam - ¾ cup
Instructions
- Take a mixing bowl and mix together butter and sugar.
- Beat them both on high speed for around 3 minutes.
- Break the eggs and separate them, add the yolk in the mixture and put in vanilla extract.
- Pour the egg white in a dish and beat till it is frothy, this will be used to stick the nuts on the cookies.
- To the butter mixture, add salt and flour.
- Mix it with a wooden spoon until all the ingredients are just combined as over mixing will affect the texture.
- Dough will be formed, wrap it in plastic and put it in the fridge for about half an hour.
- Put the oven to preheat at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Take out the dough and make small balls of one inch diameter with it.
- If you are adding nuts at this stage, roll the balls into egg whites, and then in the chopped nuts.
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and place the dough balls on it.
- Use your thumb to press the cookies and form an indention in them.
- Do not apply a lot of pressure as they might break.
- Fill the indention with your favourite flavour of jam; pour half teaspoon in each.
- Bake the cookies in the preheated oven for around 14 minutes and check if they are slightly firm.
- Take them out of the oven and let them cool on the cookie sheet for about five minutes.
- Now transfer them to the wire rack.