Thumb Cookies
"My mother grew up with this recipe from her Aunt Mildred. Soft and crumbly, these cookies are really something you can really sink your...thumbs...into."
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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60 cookies
ingredients
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Blend softened margarine and sugar in a mixer.
- Separate the egg whites out and blend the yolks into the mixture.
- Add the vanilla.
- Slowly add the flour until it forms a crumbly dough.
- DO NOT OVER-MIX!
- Without overhandling the dough, use your hands to roll it into small balls (about the size of walnuts).
- Place on an ungreased baking sheet.
- Gently press your thumb into the center of the ball so that it flattens slightly with an indentation in the center.
- Fill each thumbprint with a small amount of jam or jelly (not a heaping amount or it will ooze out onto the baking sheet in the oven)!
- Bake for 10-15 minutes or before they are visibly golden-brown (they may even seem raw, still -- they won't when they're cooled) Carefully transfer cookies to a cooling rack.
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Reviews
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Great recipe. Everyone loved them! -
Delicious! I whipped up a batch of these for a bake sale and just tasted one. I doubt all of these are going to make it to the sale! Very good flavor and an excellent texture. These were extremely easy to make and the ingredients are ones that always are on hand. Thanks for sharing the recipe! -
mmmmm, I used butter, raspberry jam, and almond flavouring instead of vanilla. I also used a mix of icing sugar, almond icing and water, drizzled this icing over top and let let. Were wonderful....! -
Fast, easy & delicious! They come out very tasty and present beautifuly!!
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mmmmm, I used butter, raspberry jam, and almond flavouring instead of vanilla. I also used a mix of icing sugar, almond icing and water, drizzled this icing over top and let let. Were wonderful....!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Seebee
United States
I'm an "ovo-vegan" and while some may find that restrictive, believe me, I don't miss out on yummy food! I often would rather stay home and whip up something from whatever I have on hand than go out to restaurants.
I'm a student at a community college (although I may return to Columbia next year...I know, big difference!). I'm taking an environmental science course right now, which has seriously effected the way I view our world. Eating organically grown foods has suddenly become a priority for me!
If you want to do your part for our world, remember this: have NO MORE THAN TWO CHILDREN. I know, your first thought in response to that is "But ME in (America or other economically sound, technologically advanced, and highly educated country) in my station in society having kids isn't the problem. MY children would (educated, spiritual, kind-hearted, beautiful...fill in your adjective here) and would be part of the solution to the problems!"
Well, yes, but it's really not fair to your anyone, that child included. Every person you bring into the world will require an American/Western lifestyle, meaning drive cars, live in a comfortable home, require a job, use water...all of which taxes our earth's resources to a ridiculous extent. (A whole lot more so than developing nations, who have their own set of woes--mainly living the way they are because someone else is restricting them to benefit people like us) People, we're growing in numbers so fast and demanding more and more of our world, we're going to crash. If not in the lifetime of your children or grandchildren, then in the generation after that. Is that fair to that/those children you have, ahem, more than two? With everyone having two kids only, at least we'll level off our population.
Sigh.
Okay, so do the right thing, avoid mass-agriculture if you can while you cook, and enjoy our priveledged life without being selfish. :-)
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