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butter cookies (swedish)

★★★★★ 3
WendyMoyer avatar
a recipe by
Wendy Levier
@WendyMoyer
Clarksville, TN

These were a staple of holiday cookies at my childhood. My great grandmother, grandmother, mom & I would make them together. As the child, I had the job of using a thimble to make the perfect dent to fill with sparkling jellies.

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Yum! These are the perfect thumbprint cookies. The dough is buttery and barely sweet; similar to a shortbread thumbprint cookie. Filling the well with your favorite sweet jam is what adds sweetness to the cookies. Not only are these delicious, but they're also easy enough to make so the kids can help prepare them. We used strawberry and blackberry jam and loved the flavor combination with the cookies. These thumbprints will be a pretty addition to a Christmas cookie tray.

— The Test Kitchen @kitchencrew
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★★★★★ 3
serves 50 or more
prep time 15 Min
cook time 40 Min
method Bake

Ingredients For butter cookies (swedish)

  • 1 1/2 c
    butter
  • 1 c
    sugar
  • 1
    egg, well beaten
  • 2 tsp
    vanilla extract
  • 4 c
    all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp
    baking powder

How To Make butter cookies (swedish)

  • Cookie tray lined with buttered aluminum foil.
    1
    Preheat oven to 400 or 375 convection. Lightly butter cookie trays with aluminum lining.
  • Creaming butter and sugar.
    2
    Cream butter well. Add sugar and cream well again.
  • Adding vanilla and egg to batter.
    3
    Add egg and vanilla. Cream once more.
  • Sifting dry ingredients.
    4
    Wisk flour and baking powder together briefly (or sift).
  • Slowly adding flour to butter.
    5
    Add flour mix to butter mix gradually.
  • Dough mixed together.
    6
    Combine until you have a smooth dough.
  • Dough formed into balls.
    7
    Form into small balls.
  • A thumbprint formed into the dough.
    8
    Press balls down with either thumb or thimble to make a nice dent in the middle of each. Dip finger or thimble in flour when needed for a clean release.
  • Filling cookies with jelly.
    9
    Fill each dent with a jelly, colored sugar or candied fruit of your choice. Grape jelly, strawberry jelly and apricot are favorites.
  • Cookies baked until golden brown.
    10
    Bake for 8 to 10 min until lightly browned then move to cooling rack.
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