Jelly Thumbprint Cookies
photo by May I Have That Rec
- Ready In:
- 48mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
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3 dozen
ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 2 eggs, separated
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups chopped walnuts
- jelly
directions
- Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla.
- Beat in egg yolks.
- Sift together flour, soda and salt and add to sugar mixture.
- Form into balls the size of a walnut, dip in slightly-beaten egg whites, and roll in chopped nuts.
- Place on a greased cookie sheet and press down slightly in the center with your thumb.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes.
- Remove from oven and press down in center again.
- Bake another 10 minutes.
- Cool.
- Just before serving, put a dab of jelly in the center of each cookie.
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These are wonderful buttery cookies with the sweetness added from the jelly, just love these cookies. My mother always made these for Christmas each year and I have carried on the tradition, except this last year I ran out of time, so this was great to make this time of the year. Our recipe is just slightly different, using 1/2 shortening and 1/2 butter and pecans instead of walnuts. I made this exactly as written, except did use pecans, don't care for walnuts. I used strawberry jelly for the filling. Thanks for sharing your recipe. Made for I Recommend Tag Game.
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I have made thumbprint cookies before but never rolled them in walnuts. These cookies were very good and I did enjoy the nuts. I put raspberry jam in half the cookies and apricot in the others. They didnt last to long so I will have to make them again and try different flavored jellies. Thank you much MaryMc for sharing your mom's recipe. Made and reviewed for Pick A Chef 2009.
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These are wonderful buttery cookies with the sweetness added from the jelly, just love these cookies. My mother always made these for Christmas each year and I have carried on the tradition, except this last year I ran out of time, so this was great to make this time of the year. Our recipe is just slightly different, using 1/2 shortening and 1/2 butter and pecans instead of walnuts. I made this exactly as written, except did use pecans, don't care for walnuts. I used strawberry jelly for the filling. Thanks for sharing your recipe. Made for I Recommend Tag Game.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
MaryMc
SeaTac, Washington
I live with my husband near Seattle. I'm a college administrator, a Mac geek, a Deadhead, and a fat activist. I love to mess around (and make a mess) in the kitchen--there isn't much that I don't like to cook. My pie crust is getting almost as good as my mother's, and that's saying something!
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