Baking is a special thing. It is a way for you to express your creativity through food. Everyone loves dessert and we always look forward to it. If you like sugar cookies, then you will love this recipe for Thumbprint Jam Cookies. For this recipe, you will need the usual ingredients used in a cookie: flour, eggs (one egg plus an egg yolk), vanilla extract, butter, salt, and sugar. But, there is a twist. There are walnuts mixed in these cookies! The addition of the walnuts add a rare flavor. The final and most important ingredient is the jam, which gives the cookie it’s name. All these ingredients play an important role; they not only help hold the cookie together but make it have matchless flavor. Now, it’s time to combine the ingredients. First, add one cup of butter, one cup of sugar and cream until smooth. Then, add one egg, one egg yolk, one teaspoon of vanilla and mix until incorporated. Next, put half a cup of walnuts into a food processor or chop until very fine. In a separate bowl, mix the chopped walnuts, three-fourths teaspoon of salt, two and two-thirds cup of flour and …show more content…
Take a small section of dough, or take a spoon and scoop a section out, and roll in the palm of your hands. Continue this step until all the dough is rolled. Now, using your thumbs, push down in the center of the dough. When all have a small indentation, take your choice of jam and add a teaspoon of it into the center of the cookie. Now, preheat the oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit. Put the cookies into the oven and bake them for 14-15 minutes or until the edges are golden brown. These cookie are not only fun to make, but they are also appealing to the eye and delicious. Thumbprint Jam Cookies are also a very simple cookie and you almost always have the ingredients lying around your house. You can get creative with the jam too. These are some of the reasons why Thumbprint Jam Cookies are one of my favorite things to