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BASIC THUMBPRINT COOKIES Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
COOKIE
1 c. Sugar
½c. Brown Sugar
⅜ tsp Salt
⅜ tsp Baking Powder
¼ tsp Baking Soda
5 c. Flour
½ c. Pecans, chopped fine
1½ c. Shortening(Crisco)
4 oz Cream Cheese
1 c. COLD Butter(cut in cubes)
1½ tsp Vanilla

FROSTING
Buttercream Frosting (recipe in back under "Frostings")
*Optional: White sugar crystals (the large crystals)

Makes 70 cookies
Directions:
Directions:
Mix on stir: Sugar, Brown Sugar, Salt, Baking Powder, Soda, Flour and Pecans.
Add & mix on stir: Crisco, Cream Cheese, COLD Butter and Vanilla.
Drop by large cookie scoop. Roll into balls. Make hole in center.
Bake: 350º for 16-19 minutes. Cool.

Fill center with buttercream frosting. ( I use tip #4B)
Sprinkle with sugar, if desired.
 

PRALINE THUMBPRINT
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1BASIC THUMBPRINT COOKIE recipe

FILLING:
½ c. Butter (cubed)
1-1/2 c Brown Sugar
1/4 c. Milk
1/2 tsp Maple Flavor
1/2 tsp Vanilla
2-1/2 c. Powdered Sugar
Toasted Pecan Pieces
Directions:
Directions:
FILLING:
Boil: Butter, Brown Sugar and Milk over medium heat 3 minutes. Remove from heat.
Stir in: Maple Flavor and Vanilla.
Beat in Powdered Sugar. Add more milk if necessary(if it's too thick)
Fill cookies with Tip#1A. (Cover tip with tape while filling bag to keep it from running out)
Sprinkle with toaste Pecan pieces, if desired.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
The basic buttercream thumbprint is the number one favorite cookie at all of my farmers markets. I've been told it's the best thumbprint cookie ever invented! The variations are a bit more difficult (ok, a lot), but they are worth it!

 

 

 

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