Mom's Thumbprint Cookies

"My mother used to use these in one of her lessons, when she was a Home Economics teacher in the '60s."
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
7
Yields:
3 dozen
Serves:
36
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 350'.
  • Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl.
  • Add yolk and mix.
  • Add flour, beat until well blended.
  • In a small bowl, lightly beat egg white.
  • Form dough into small balls.
  • Dip each ball in egg white and roll in nuts, place on a cookie sheet.
  • Bake 5 minutes.
  • Make depression in each cookie, the back of a small measuring spoon works well.
  • Bake 10 more minutes.
  • Cool, add small spoonful of jelly in the depression of each cookie.
  • Substitutions: may use walnuts or almonds, instead of pecans.
  • May use icing instead of jelly.

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Reviews

  1. These are the best Thumbprint Cookies I have ever made, and I've been making them since the 70s when I received a book called Sunburst Farm Family Cookbook (from Santa Barbara, CA). The only difference between this one and their recipe is Walnuts vs Pecans, and the addition of a 1/2 tsp sea salt. One of my family's favorites!
     
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