Thumbprint Cookies Recipe

What are you going to fill these cookies with?

• Jam
• Nuts
• Preserves
• Jelly
• Chocolate
• Cherries
• Candied Fruit

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 egg yolks
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups finely chopped walnuts
1/2 cup jam or preserves
2 egg whites beaten

• Preheat Oven to 375 degrees F.
• Cream together sugar, butter, egg yolk and vanilla.
• Pour in salt and flour and blended well.
• Roll cookie dough into 1 inch balls then dip into beaten egg whites. Followed by rolling into nuts and place 1 1/2 apart onto a ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake for 6 minutes. Quickly with thumb press thumb in the center of each cookie. Then put in you favorite jam then return to oven and bake for another 7 minutes.

Make 4 Dozen

Tip: Instead of using your thumb and pressing down in the center. Try instead in the thumbprint cookie the end of a wood spoon thats about 1/2 inch round.

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