Chocolate Thumbprints

Name: Chocolate Thumbprints
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 50
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking powder; 59 milliliters firmly packed brown sugar; 227 grams cup butter, at room temperature; 2 larges egg yolks; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 118 milliliters granulated sugar; 0 teaspoons salt; 79 milliliters About turbinado sugar (see notes); 1 teaspoon vanilla

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Chocolate Thumbprints a try. One serving contains 71 calories, 1g of protein, and 4g of fat. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 50. If you have baking powder, salt, vanilla, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

In a bowl, with a mixer on high speed, beat butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until smooth. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla until well blended, scraping sides of bowl as needed.

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Granulated Sugar

Brown Sugar

Egg Yolk

Vanilla

Butter

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Blender

Bowl

In a small bowl, mix flour, baking powder, and salt. With mixer on low speed, beat flour mixture into butter mixture until well blended. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and chill until dough is firm but pliable, about 30 minutes.

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Baking Powder

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Wrap

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Bowl

Place about 1/3 cup turbinado sugar in a shallow bowl. Shape dough into 1-inch balls and roll to coat in turbinado sugar.

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Turbinado Sugar

Dough

Roll

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Bowl

Place 1 inch apart on buttered 12- by 15-inch baking sheets. Press your thumb into the center of each cookie to make a 1/2-inch-deep imprint.

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Baking Sheet

Bake cookies in a 325 regular or convection oven until lightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes. If baking more than one sheet at a time in one oven, switch positions halfway through baking.

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Oven

Transfer cookies to a rack to cool completely (if indentations have disappeared, make them again while cookies are warm).

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Carefully fill each indentation with about 1/2 tablespoon chocolate ganache.

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Chocolate

Let cool until ganache is shiny and firm to the touch, about 1 hour (or chill for about 30 minutes).

Chocolate ganache: In a heatproof bowl set over (but not touching) barely simmering water in a pan, occasionally stir 6 ounces chopped bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, 2 tablespoons whipping cream, 1 tablespoon corn syrup, and 1 tablespoon butter until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth.

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Semisweet Chocolate