Christmas Thumb Print Cookies

Submitted by aiken.tammy17

"I created these cookies for Christmas, everyone ask for these cookies around the holidays and they don't last."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 3⁄4 cup light brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 4 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 3⁄4 cups white chocolate chips, reserve 2 cups
• 1⁄2 cup strawberry preserves, 1 tsp in the middle of each cookie

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a mixing bowl, cream together butter, granulated sugar, light brown sugar, vanilla, and cream cheese. Add eggs and baking soda, then add the flour 1/2 cup at a time until incorporated.
3. Add 3/4 cup white morsels to the batter and mix.
4. Spray a cookie sheet with a nonstick cooking spray.
5. Make dough balls about the size of a walnut, then press your thumb in the middle of each cookie and fill the indent with 1 teaspoon of strawberry preserves.
6. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes, then remove cookies to cooling racks.
7. Melt 2 cups of the white morsels over a double boiler and melt until you have a smooth consistency. With a fork drizzle over cookies, back and fourth before they cool off. Eat warm or cool.

Reviews

[Janisa]

These weren't the thumbprint cookies I'd hoped for. If you make these don't bake more than 12-14 min.