Thumbprint Cookies
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
3 dozen cookies
ingredients
- 1⁄4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine, softened
- 1⁄4 cup shortening
- 1⁄4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 large egg, separated
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup flour
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup finely chopped nuts (I usually use walnuts, but pecans and peanuts would be good too!)
- red jelly or green jelly
directions
- Heat oven to 350°.
- Mix throroughly butter, shortening, sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla.
- Work in flour and salt until dough holds together.
- (You may want to add a tiny bit of water if the dough seems dry; make a ball of dough-- if the dough cracks when you make your thumbprint, add a bit of water to soften the dough and prevent cracks.) Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
- Beat egg white slightly.
- Dip each ball into egg white; roll in nuts.
- Place 1-inch apart on ungreased baking sheets.
- Press thumb deeply into center of each.
- Bake about 10 minutes or until light brown.
- Remove immediately from baking sheet; cool.
- Fill thumbprint with jelly.
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SilentCricket
Highlands Ranch, CO
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