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Fancy Plum Thumbprint Cookies | Can't Stay Out of the Kitchen | marvelous #cookie for any kind of #holiday, backyard BBQ, potluck or family reunion. #dessert

Fancy Plum Thumbprint Cookies

Teresa Ambra
Fancy Plum Thumbprint Cookies will rock your world! This scrumptious Thumbprint Cookie uses a simple Sugar Cookie dough and Fancy Plum jam. It makes for a great holiday treat, or any time you want a delicious cookie for dessert!
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Cookies, Brownies and Bars, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 24
Calories 146 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 large mixing bowl
  • 1 electric mixer
  • 1 wooden spoon
  • measuring cups
  • measuring spoons
  • 1 small mixing bowl
  • 1 whisk
  • 2 wire cooling racks
  • 1 spatula

Ingredients
  

COOKIES:

  • 1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks)
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1/4 tsp. sea salt
  • 2/14 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour bleached flour toughens baked goods
  • 1/2 cup fancy plum jelly more or less as needed

ICING:

  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 tbsp. 2% milk
  • 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

Instructions
 

COOKIES:

  • Soften butter.
  • Add granulated sugar, vanilla and salt and mix with an electric mixer until well mixed.
  • Add flour and continue mixing on low speed of electric mixer until well combined.
  • Mixture will be thick.
  • Refrigerate dough at least 60 minutes.
  • Roll dough into balls and place on greased cookie sheets.
  • With the bottom of a wooden spoon, make an indentation in the center of each cookie.
  • Spoon about 1/8 teaspoon of jelly into each indentation.
  • Bake at 350° for about 15-20 minutes or until done.
  • Rotate pans half way through cooking time.

ICING:

  • Combine the glaze ingredients in a small bowl and whisk until smooth.
  • Drizzle glaze over cooled cookies.
  • Allow icing to set before serving cookies.

Notes

NOTE: I use the back of a wooden spoon because it’s smaller than an actual thumb print. The larger the hole in the cookie the more the cookies spread, so it’s better to make smaller indentations.
 
NOTE: You cannot skip the step to chill the dough.
 
NOTE: Time allotted does not include time for chilling the dough.
 
 
NOTE: I used St. Dalfour's jelly, but any kind of plum jam can be used.
 
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Nutrition

Calories: 146kcalCarbohydrates: 19gProtein: 0.2gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.3gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.3gCholesterol: 20mgSodium: 24mgPotassium: 11mgFiber: 0.1gSugar: 17gVitamin A: 238IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 5mgIron: 0.1mg
Keyword cookie, dessert, plum jam, thumbprint cookie
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