Raspberry Thumbprint Cookiesare made with nutty dough and loaded with a hint of tart raspberry flavor. They’re buttery, tender-crumbed, sweetened just right and perfect for Christmas baking.
Thumbprintsare one of the most classic Christmascookiesyou can bake during the holidays. Every bitejust crumbles and melts in your mouth. It’s a classic Christmas cookie that ishard to pass up.
Raspberry is my favorite flavor, but you’re welcome to substitute with other fruit flavors. You can even use a combinationof different flavors of jam. It’ll give you an amazing variety of cookies to serve.
How To Make The Thumbprint Cookies
- Combine softened butter with sugar. To the mixture add egg yolk and vanilla.
- To the ingredients add flour, salt, and chopped pecans.
- Form cookies by scooping out mounds of the cookie dough. Make a well in the middle of the cookie and fill it with raspberry jam.
- Bake the cookies at 350F for about 30 minutes or until they’re golden brown.
Other Christmas Cookies To Try
The following recipe has been contributed by Dina from Simply Home Cooked, you can get more inspiration from her recipes. Love how she incorporated raspberries in her recipe “Lemon Cupcakes With Raspberry Buttercream.
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Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup butter softened at room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 1/3 cup flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup toasted pecans finely chopped
- 1 cup raspberry jam
Instructions
- Prepare all the ingredients.
- Whisk together the softened butter and sugar using a stand or hand mixer. Next, add in the egg yolk and vanilla extract.
- Lastly, mix in the flour, salt, and chopped toasted pecans.
- Using a cookie scoop, portion out equal-sized mounds of the cookie dough into a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Using your thumb or the back of a teaspoon, press into the center of each cookie.
- Fill a piping bag with raspberry jam and pipe the jam into the center of each cookie. Bake at 350°F for 20 minutes or until they turn golden brown.
Can I substitute pecans with walnuts?
Hey Elena, I haven't tried using walnuts. If you do, please let me know how they come out.
Does it need to be baked 30 min?
I noticed they get really brown.
Just wanted to make sure I don’t overbake them.
Thank you!
Hey Olha, we just updated the recipe to 20 minutes of bake time. You do want to pull them out when they are golden brown. Thanks for your feedback!
These turned out amazing! Thank you for the recipe. Just wondering, I put extra dough in the fridge and it got really hard even though it was in wrap. Is there an easy way to soften dough that has been refrigerated? Thank you again
Hey Tanya, you keep the dough out in room temperature, it should soften up.