Seasons Best Thumbprint Cookies Recipe

Seasons Best Thumbprint Cookies Recipe

Yield: 3 dozen
Recipe by luhu.jp

Ingredients:

COOKIES
1/2 cup: Butter or margarine, (one
1/4 tsp: Salt,
-stick), softened
2 tbsp: Milk,
2/3 cup: Sugar,
1 cup: Chopped walnuts,
1: Egg,
Vanilla Filling or Chocolate,
1 tsp: Vanilla extract,
-Cream Filling,
1 cup: All-purpose flour,
3/4 cup: To 1 c cherry pie filling,
1/3 cup: Cocoa,
, chilled

VANILLA FILLING
3/4 cup: Powdered sugar,
2 tsp: To 3 ts milk,
1 tbsp: Plus 1 ts butter or,
1/2 tsp: Vanilla extract,
-margarine, softened

CHOCOLATE CREAM FILLING
3 ounce: Cream cheese, softened
2 tbsp: Cocoa,
1/2 cup: Powdered sugar,
1/4 tsp: Vanilla extract,

Directions:

Cookies: In large mixer bowl beat butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla
until light and fluffy. Stir together flour, cocoa, and salt; blend
into butter mixture. Add milk; beat until well blended. Stir in
walnuts. Refrigerate dough at least 1 hour or until firm enough to
handle. Heat oven to 350F. Lightly grease cookie sheet. Shape dough
into 1-inch balls; place on prepared cookie sheet. Press thumb into
center of each cookie. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set. Remove
from cookie sheet to wire rack; cool. To serve, place about 1/2 ts
filling in thumbprint; top with about 1 ts pie filling. Store cookies
in refrigerator.

Vanilla Filling: In small bowl, combine all ingredients; beat until
smooth.

Chocolate Cream Filling: In small mixer bowl, beat cream cheese and
powdered sugar until well blended. Add cocoa and vanilla extract; beat
until smooth.
Submitted By NANCY VAINE On 10-24-94


Source from luhu.jp