Chocolate Thumbprints

Name: Chocolate Thumbprints
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 1
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

Need a vegetarian dessert? Chocolate Thumbprints could be a super recipe to try. This recipe serves 1. One portion of this dish contains about 34g of protein, 196g of fat, and a total of 3528 calories. This recipe covers 46% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 2 hours. If you have vanilla, turbinado sugar, flour, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

In a bowl, with an electric mixer on high speed, beat butter, granulated sugar, and brown 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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Hand Mixer

Bowl

In another 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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Plastic Wrap

Blender

Bowl

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

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Turbinado Sugar

Dough

Roll

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Bowl

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

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Baking Sheet

Bake cookies in a 325 oven until lightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes; if baking more than one pan at a time, switch pan positions halfway through baking.

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Oven

Frying Pan

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 teaspoon chocolate ganache.

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Chocolate

Let stand 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 a pan of barely simmering water (bottom of bowl should not touch water), 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