Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, cherry thumbprint cookies. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cherry thumbprint cookies using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cherry Thumbprint Cookies:
- Make ready SHORTBREAD THUMBPRINT COOKI
- Make ready 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- Make ready 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1/4 tsp almond extract
- Make ready 2 cup plus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- Get 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/2 cup cherry preserves or jam
- Get WHITE CHOCOLATE GLAZE
- Prepare 4 white chocolate, not chips chopped
- Make ready DARK CHOCOLATE GLAZE
- Take 4 semi sweet chocolate, chopped or chips can be used
Place ball on a cookie sheet lined with was paper. Press down on the center of the cookie dough ball using your thumb. Press down with your thumb again crossing over the original thumbprint; creating an x-shape. Place the dough onto your cookie sheet and press a small well into the tops of them with your thumb.
Steps to make Cherry Thumbprint Cookies:
- Preheat oven to 350. Line baking sheets with parchment paper
- Combine flour and salt in a bowl, set aside
- In another bowl beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, add vanilla and almond extract and beat in
- Add flour and salt mixture and stir until b L emded
- Cover and refigerate until dough is firm, at least 2 hours. Then roll into 1 inch balls, place on prepared pans
- Make a indentation with a wooden spoon handle or a thumb,if it cracks just smooth it over , place some cherry jam in each indentation. Keep dough cool. If it warms during batches chill it don't work with warm sticky dough
- Bake for 13 to 15 minutes until slightly golden. Cool in pans 5 minutes then transfer to racks to cool completely before glazing
- GLAZE COOKIES
- Melt semisweet chocolate, just until smooth. Drizzle over cooled cookies
- Melt white chocolate just until smooth, . Drizzle over cookies. Let cookies sit about 30 minutes to set choclate up.
Press down with your thumb again crossing over the original thumbprint; creating an x-shape. Place the dough onto your cookie sheet and press a small well into the tops of them with your thumb. Grab a maraschino cherry and gently squeeze it in a paper towel, to make sure it's not wet, and place it into the well of your cookie. *Note - If the cherries are still wet they will leave red stains around the top of your cookies. Cherry Pie Thumbprint Cookies are scrumptious! A shortbread style cookie topped with Cherry Pie Filling & a drizzle of chocolate, the perfect holiday treat!
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