Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients: ¼cup packed brown sugar
½ cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 cup Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ cup finely chopped nuts
Jelly
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Directions:Heat oven to 350°
Mix brown sugar, shortening, butter, vanilla and egg yolk in medium bowl.
Stir in flour and salt until dough holds together.
Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Beat egg white slightly. Dip each ball into egg white. Roll in nuts. Place about 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Press thumb deeply in center of each.
Bake about 10 minutes or until light brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely, for about 30 minutes. Fill thumbprints with jelly. |
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Notes: These cookies were often called Thimble Cookies in older cookbooks because bakers used a thimble to make the indentation.
You'll be done in a flash if you use a food processor to chop the nuts.
Do follow the direction about making a deep imprint with your thumb to account for the rising that will happen in the oven.
Making your thumbprints for Christmas? Give them a bright seasonal look with raspberry or strawberry jam. Be sure to roll in chopped walnuts.
It’s helpful to warm jam or jelly with a quick zap in the microwave and a vigorous stir to loosen it up. This will make filling the cookies a little easier.
My mom made every year to give away with her other extraordinary cookies.
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