Thumbprint cookies. These Thumbprint Cookies are perfect for the holidays or any occasion! I filled these cookies with strawberry and apricot jam, but you can fill them with just about any flavor. These cookies freeze best unbaked and unfilled.
Use your favorite jam to fill them, or use different flavors for a Nutritional Information.
Thumbprint Cookies are a very popular holiday cookie.
They are made with an enriched shortbread dough that is formed into balls and then rolled in finely chopped nuts or dried coconut.
You can Cook Thumbprint cookies using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Thumbprint cookies
- Lets Go Prepare 1/2 cup of unsalted butter, room temperature.
- Lets Go Prepare 1 of large eggs.
- It's 1/2 cup of sugar.
- Lets Go Prepare 2 cups of all-purpose flour.
- Lets Go Prepare 1/4 cup of cornstarch sifted.
- It's 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
- Lets Go Prepare 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
- It's of Strawberry jam.
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Thumbprint cookies instructions
- Preheat the oven to 190C..
- Sift together the flour, cornstarch and salt..
- Cream together the butter and sugar until they are light and fluffy..
- Add the eggs and mix until well incorporated..
- Add the flour mixture to the creamed butter and sugar. Mix until the dough starts to come together. Add vanilla..
- Roll the dough into 1 1/4-inch balls. Place the balls on an ungreased cookie sheet and press a light indentation into the top of each with your finger. Drop 1/4 teaspoon of jam into each indentation..
- Bake for about 10 minutes at 190C..
- Cool and serve. ENJOY🌹.
These THUMBPRINT COOKIES are the perfect holiday cookies. Cookie dough balls are coated in walnuts then topped with raspberry jam. An old fashioned cookie but a classic and incredibly delicious! I have been making these Thumbprint Cookies since college, and they never get old! Buttery shortbread is filled with sweet jam for this easy and delicious cookie.