Thumbprint Cookies

Name: Thumbprint Cookies
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 24 cookies, 24 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1/2 cup margarine, soft; 1/4 cup sugar; 1/4 cup dark corn syrup; 1 large egg, separated; 1 1/4 cups unsifted flour; 1/2 cup pecans, finely chopped; jelly or preserves

Submitted by Rhonda O

"My Mom made these every Christmas! Everyone loves them!"

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photo by Derf2440

Ready In:: 50mins
Ingredients:: 7
Yields:: 24 cookies
Serves:: 24

ingredients

¹⁄₂ cup margarine, soft
¹⁄₄ cup sugar
¹⁄₄ cup dark corn syrup
1 large egg, separated
1 ¹⁄₄ cups unsifted flour
¹⁄₂ cup pecans, finely chopped
jelly or preserves

directions

Mix margarine and sugar to creamy.
Add syrup and egg yolk.
Stir in flour, mix well.
Chill dough.
Roll into 1-inch balls.
Dip in slightly beaten egg white.
Roll into nuts.
Place on greased cookie sheet.
Press thumb into center of each cookie.
Bake at 325° for 20 minutes.
While warm fill center or each cookie with your favorite jam, jelly, or preserves.
(I use strawberry preserves).

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Reviews

These are quite easy to make. The only change I made was to use more chopped pecans (I found myself running out after rolling about 2/3 of the cookies.) I used raspberry preserves, which seemed to me to provide the best combination of flavours. They taste great and look wonderful as well.

Just Call Me Martha
Perfect cookies!

Larry O
While these cookies do look and taste great I was quite disapointed that I only got 14 cookies out of the recipe. It was also a very dry dough which had to be pressed into the palm to form rather than roll, when rolled they fell apart; after baking when trying to put the thumbprint in, some cracked. Wonderful taste but I would not make them again, not enough results for all the effort put into making them. Again, I want to emphasize they look and taste wonderful.

Derf2440

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Rhonda O

Sellersburg, Indiana

Hello, I am Rhonda from Southern Indiana. Many of the recipes I have posted are my Dear Mothers. She was a Great Cook! My posting is A tribute to her. For All the world to see her recipes. I lost my Mother to Cancer on May 6th 2001. 7/19/05 Took in a Stray Cat! His name is ROCKY. I love this site! I enjoy all the recipes and when I get a good review it makes me smile. Because it is for MOM!!!??

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