Thumbprint Cookies
"These brown sugar cookies have a nutty coating and a raspberry jam center. They're an attractive cookie to serve at special occasions, like Easter. Just keeping in mind, they're delicious too...so they won't last long on your serving dish!!"
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
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50 cookies
ingredients
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COOKIES
- 2 1⁄3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 egg whites, slightly beaten
- 1 1⁄2 cups nuts, finely chopped (pecans, hazenluts or almonds)
- smucker's pure raspberry jam
directions
- Preheat oven to 300°F.
- Combine flour and salt. Stir well to blend.
- Cream butter, brown sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla together thoroughly in medium speed of electric mixer.
- Add flour to creamed mixture gradually. Mix well with hand to form a smooth dough.
- Shape dough into 3/4 "balls. Dip in egg whites and then in chopped nuts. Place on ungreased baking sheets. Make indentation in center of each cookie with thumb.
- Bake at 300F for 5 minutes.
- Press center down again. Bake 15 minutes longer or until set.
- Cool and fill centers with jam.
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