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Thumbprint Cookies
 
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes
Cook Time: 16 Minutes
Ready In: 16 Minutes
Servings: 16
This is a great recipe from Dorie Greenspan's book Baking: From My Home to Yours . You will not be able to eat just one!
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups ground pecans (or other nuts to your taste)
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
8 oz (2 sticks) butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup icing sugar
about 1 cup strawberry jam (marmalade or apricot jam work well too)
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Mix ground pecans and flour together thoroughly.
3. Beat softened butter with sugar until fluffy. Add vanilla extract and mix well.
4. Add flour/nut mixture and mix on low speed until well blended.
5. Make small balls of dough in your hand and place on non-stick cookie sheet about 1 apart. Make a dimple with your finger in each ball, being careful not to punch all the way down to the cookie sheet.
6. Bake for 15 minutes. Let cool on cookie sheet for a few minutes, then remove to rack.
7. Dust cookies with icing sugar.
8. Heat jam in small saucepan until smoothly liquid. Fill cavity in each cookie with jam. Let cool completely before enjoying.
By RecipeOfHealth.com