Thumbprint Cookies

Name: Thumbprint Cookies
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters packed brown sugar; 59 milliliters butter or margarine, softened; 1 egg, separated; 237 milliliters Gold Medal® all-purpose flour; 3 servings Jelly; 177 milliliters finely chopped nuts; 0 teaspoons salt; 59 milliliters shortening; 1 teaspoons vanilla

Need From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350ºF.

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Oven

Mix brown sugar, shortening, butter, vanilla and egg yolk in medium bowl. Stir in flour and salt until dough holds together.

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Brown Sugar

Shortening

Egg Yolk

Vanilla

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Bowl

Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Beat egg white slightly. Dip each ball into egg white.

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Egg Whites

Dough

Dip

Roll in nuts.

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Nuts

Roll

Place about 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Press thumb deeply in center of each.

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Baking Sheet

Bake about 10 minutes or until light brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Fill thumbprints with jelly.

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Jelly