Jelly Thumbprint Cookies
"This is a recipe I got from my mother. The cookies are pretty, and they taste good, too. I always make them when I'm in my annual holiday baking frenzy."
photo by May I Have That Rec
- Ready In:
- 48mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
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3 dozen
ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 2 eggs, separated
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups chopped walnuts
- jelly
directions
- Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla.
- Beat in egg yolks.
- Sift together flour, soda and salt and add to sugar mixture.
- Form into balls the size of a walnut, dip in slightly-beaten egg whites, and roll in chopped nuts.
- Place on a greased cookie sheet and press down slightly in the center with your thumb.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes.
- Remove from oven and press down in center again.
- Bake another 10 minutes.
- Cool.
- Just before serving, put a dab of jelly in the center of each cookie.
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Reviews
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Tanks for posting this recipe. I could not find my mothers recipe to make these cookies and I knew someone would have had to post a good one here. Just like mother made. These are a must for holiday cookie trays.
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These are wonderful buttery cookies with the sweetness added from the jelly, just love these cookies. My mother always made these for Christmas each year and I have carried on the tradition, except this last year I ran out of time, so this was great to make this time of the year. Our recipe is just slightly different, using 1/2 shortening and 1/2 butter and pecans instead of walnuts. I made this exactly as written, except did use pecans, don't care for walnuts. I used strawberry jelly for the filling. Thanks for sharing your recipe. Made for I Recommend Tag Game. -
These cookies are wonderful! We made them last night and they turned out perfect! Will make these every christmas! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe! Hope you like the photo of them! -
I have made thumbprint cookies before but never rolled them in walnuts. These cookies were very good and I did enjoy the nuts. I put raspberry jam in half the cookies and apricot in the others. They didnt last to long so I will have to make them again and try different flavored jellies. Thank you much MaryMc for sharing your mom's recipe. Made and reviewed for Pick A Chef 2009.
Tweaks
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My husbands body doesn't tolerate eating nuts, but he can digest peanut butter so when i make these i fill them with peanut butter and jelly. They are a huge hit with him my grandchildren and the neighbors kids as well.
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These are wonderful buttery cookies with the sweetness added from the jelly, just love these cookies. My mother always made these for Christmas each year and I have carried on the tradition, except this last year I ran out of time, so this was great to make this time of the year. Our recipe is just slightly different, using 1/2 shortening and 1/2 butter and pecans instead of walnuts. I made this exactly as written, except did use pecans, don't care for walnuts. I used strawberry jelly for the filling. Thanks for sharing your recipe. Made for I Recommend Tag Game.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
MaryMc
SeaTac, Washington
I live with my husband near Seattle. I'm a college administrator, a Mac geek, a Deadhead, and a fat activist. I love to mess around (and make a mess) in the kitchen--there isn't much that I don't like to cook. My pie crust is getting almost as good as my mother's, and that's saying something!
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