Thumbprint Cookies

Submitted by Liz Zzzz

"Fill the "print" in each nut-crunchy goodie with a dollop of sparkling Christmas red or green jelly, a candied cherry or pastel-tinted frosting."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• 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 egg, separated
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup gold medal flour
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 3⁄4 cup finely chopped nuts
• jelly

directions

1. Heat oven to 350°.
2. Mix thoroughly butter, shortening, sugar, egg yolk and vanilla.
3. Work in flour and salt until dough holds together.
4. Shape dough by teaspoonfuls into 1-inch balls.
5. Beat egg white slightly.
6. Dip each dough ball into egg white; roll in nuts.
7. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheet; press thumb deeply in center of each.
8. Bake about 10 minutes or until light brown.
9. Immediately remove from baking sheet.
10. Cool; fill thumbprint with jelly.
11. *Ifusing self-rising flour, omit salt.
12. Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies: Substitute ½ cup granulated sugar for ¼ cup brown sugar; add 1 ounce melted unsweetened chocolate (cool) with the vanilla.

Reviews

[Breezytoo]

Love these! First found this recipe in a Betty Crocker cookbook and nice to see it posted here for safe keeping because my old book has seen better days! I have never gotten 3 dozen out of one batch, more like 20 or so, so if someone is making these for the first time I suggest doubling the recipe to get that amount. Thanks for posting :)

 

[123Kathy]

Baking these for the first time right now. Very easy to mix by hand which is great for people with bad hands like me. Doubled the recipe and got only 3 dozen so if you want more make the balls small. I'd say a scant teaspoon or about 1/2 inch. I think they are likely better when made larger.<br/>Using my convection oven I reduced temp to 325 degrees but ended up having to increase baking tome to 15 minutes. I also filled with jam prior to baking as I like the way it spreads in the thumbprints. They look great and smell wonderful...cooling....cooled, tasted...not bad !