Thumb Print Cookies The Ultimate best!

By Deb Crane
@songchef

This is the only Thumb print cookie recipe I will ever use. They turn out delicate and delectable! Other recipes yield dry and tasteless cookies....not this recipe! This one has never failed me. Feel free to double this recipe as you will want more! Use whatever jam or filling you desire.
Also, I just made these again with my Grandchildren. We didnt add the nuts and they still turned out great! Have the kids roll the dough into balls and poke their thumbs into them....they had a blast creating these cookies! :)

Blue Ribbon Recipe

Reminiscent of pecan sandies, these gorgeous cookies are as tasty as they are festive. The Test Kitchen

Rating:

★★★★★ 45 votes

Comments:

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Serves:

around 22 cookies (depending on size)

Method:

Bake

Ingredients

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1 c: all purpose flour
1/8 tsp: salt
1: stick of butter, room tempurature
1/3 c: sugar: add to the butter and blend until light and fluffy
1 tsp: vanilla extract
1: egg yolk (reserve egg white for glossing the tops of the cookies if you want)
3/4 c: chopped walnuts (or other nut if you wish) *optional
1/2 c: jam, preserves,spreads of your choosing. *see notes in directions

How to Make Thumb Print Cookies The Ultimate best!

Step-by-Step

1Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Blend flour and salt and set aside.
2In a seperate mixer, whip butter that has been at room temperature until light and fluffy.
3Add the sugar, and blend until light and fluffy.
Add in the egg yolk and blend.
Add the vanilla and blend.
4Add in the flour and salt mixture and beat until blended. If adding the nuts, add them next and blend until it forms a dough ball. This is easier with a Kitchen aide blender.
5With the dough, take small teaspoon size portions and roll into little balls. Place on a greased cookie sheet (or parchment lined cookie sheet)
Make them small, and space them on the cookie sheets....they grow when they cook!
6Into each ball on the cookie sheet, indent it with your thumb or finger (or even knuckle)
7Bake them in a preheated 350 degree oven for about 10 minutes.
Take them out of the oven. They will have puffed up a bit, and the indentation will be fairly lost at this point.
Again, indent the cookies with the back of a spoon this time, while still hot.
Place whatever filling you would like (about a 1/2 teaspoon in each cookie)
8Return them to the oven and bake an additional 10 minutes, or until they are golden brown on the rims of the cookies. (the fillings might even "bubble" a bit, but that is ok.
9* Any favorite jam,jelly or filling can be used in these cookies. The ones shown here, are apricot and strawberry preserves. Jellies tend to be more "runny" but will still work as well....depends on what you like and what you have on hand, but it is only limited to your imagination and tastes!
Make this recipe your own by adding whatever your family likes. :)

Seriously good cookies! And like I said, you might want to double this recipe, because they do not last long at all! :)