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A Tasty & Easy Holiday Cookie Recipe

Baking holiday cookies are a great way to spend time together with family while creating a treat to bring with you to holiday gatherings.

In my family, it isn't really the holidays until we spend a few days together baking cookies together. We turn on some holiday music, cover the kitchen in flour and sugar and eat more cookies than I'd like to admit. Baking gives us some quality family time as well as yummy treats to take with us to holiday gatherings.

Some of the recipes we bake each year have been passed down through the family and some we've have acquired over the years. My personal favorite cookie we bake during the holidays is the Thumbprint Cookie. It's a relatively easy cookie to bake with minimal ingredients and you can get the kids involved in the process as well.

Thumbprint Cookies

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Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup of soft butter
  • 1/4 cup of brown sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 cup of sifted flour
  • 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract
  • Jam or fruit preserves

Preparation:

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  1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Mix butter, sugar, egg yolk and vanilla together.
  3. Sift flour and salt and add to mixture.
  4. Roll dough into 1-inch balls and place about 1 inch apart on an ungreased baking sheet.
  5. Bake for five minutes, remove cookies from the over and quickly press your thumb into the center of each cookie (The cookies can be hot, so an adult should do this part).
  6. Bake cookies for another five minutes, take them out of the oven, and fill the thumbprint with the jam flavor of your choice...raspberry and strawberry are favorites in my house.
  7. Let the cookies bake for another four to five minutes, or until the bottoms begin to turn a golden color. Take the cookies off of the baking sheet to cool.

Recipe makes about two dozen cookies.

Additional cookie baking tip: Placing parchment paper on a baking sheet keeps cookies from sticking the to sheet and, in my experience, has kept the bottom of the cookies from getting too dark.

 


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