Mom's Thumbprint Cookies
From anj 13 years ago
- 1 hour to make
- Serves 24 small cookies
My mom always made these at Christmas. They were my dad's favorite cookies and they're one of my favorites too. They are little more involved, but well worth the effort.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening (Mom always used margarine) shopping list
- 1/4 cup brown sugar shopping list
- 1 cup flour shopping list
- 1 egg, separated shopping list
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla shopping list
- 1/4 tsp. salt shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Cream shortening and sugar with egg yolk and vanilla.
- Sift flour before measuring. Measure flour and salt into a small bowl. Sift or stir together.
- Stir flour mixture into creamed mixture.
- Slightly beat egg white.
- Form dough into 1" balls and dip in egg white.
- Place on cookie sheet and bake 5 minutes.
- Remove from oven and press thumb into each cookie top.
- Return to oven and bake an additional 8 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool. When fully cooled, fill each thumbprint with jelly, jam or fruit preserves.
- Note: Mom used to save the "almost empty" jelly, jam, and fruit preserve jars all year for these cookies. Most of the time, by the time she put the jelly, jam or preserves into the thumbprint it would have slightly sugared, which made the cookies even better! Sometimes she'd use spun honey and keep the cookies in the refrigerator. I don't know about storing the ones with jelly or jam in the fridge, because they never last long enough to need refrigeration.
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This is exactly how my Grandmother and Mother made them too! My Grandma always used margarine and I prefer margarine over shortening and butter. The reason to dip them into the egg white is so the nuts stick to them. So, after dipping each ball into ...more
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