Are you looking for a great Thumbprint Cookie recipe for the upcoming holidays? These Thumbprint Cookies are going to be a hit at the dessert table. Of course, that is assuming they last long enough to make it there!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Christmas cookie recipes, cookie
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 12 minutesminutes
Total Time 22 minutesminutes
Servings 24
Calories 246kcal
Author Michelle
Ingredients
Cookie:
1cupbutter
⅔cupsugar
2egg yolks
½tspvanilla
21/4cupsall-purpose flour
½tspsalt
Chocolate frosting:
1cupsugar
¼cupcocoa
¼cupmilk
¼cupbutter
½tspvanilla
Instructions
Preheat oven at 300 degrees.
Cream butter, gradually add sugar, beat until fluffy. Add egg yolks, beat. In a separate bowl, combine flour and salt.
Mix all ingredients. Roll dough into 1 inch balls and roll in sugar. Press thumb into balls making an indention. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 17 minutes. Do not brown.
Cool on wire racks.
Frosting:
Combine sugar, cocoa, and milk in a saucepan. Boil for a minute and a half stirring constantly.
Remove from heat, add butter and vanilla. Keep stirring until it thickens.