Easiest Way to Prepare Tasty Cherry Thumbprint Cookies

Cherry Thumbprint Cookies. Make thumbprints in each dough ball and fill with your a cherry from the pie filling. You want to put these cookies in the oven while the dough is still cold to minimize spreading! Flatten slightly with the palm of your hand, then make a small indent in the center of each cookie using your thumb.

Grab a maraschino cherry and gently squeeze it in a paper towel, to make sure it's not wet, and place it into the well of your cookie. If the cherries are still wet they will leave red stains around the top of your cookies. For the cookies, whisk together flour and salt. You can have Cherry Thumbprint Cookies using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Cherry Thumbprint Cookies

1. It's of SHORTBREAD THUMBPRINT COOKI.
2. You need 1 cup of unsalted butter, at room temperature.
3. Prepare 2/3 cup of granulated sugar.
4. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
5. It's 1/4 tsp of almond extract.
6. Prepare 2 cup of plus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour.
7. Prepare 1/4 tsp of salt.
8. It's 1/2 cup of cherry preserves or jam.
9. You need of WHITE CHOCOLATE GLAZE.
10. You need 4 of white chocolate, not chips chopped.
11. You need of DARK CHOCOLATE GLAZE.
12. It's 4 of semi sweet chocolate, chopped or chips can be used.

Add egg yolk, vanilla, and almond extract and beat on low speed until blended. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture; beat on low speed until combined. Lightly grease cookie sheets; set aside. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

Cherry Thumbprint Cookies step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Combine flour and salt in a bowl, set aside.
3. In another bowl beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, add vanilla and almond extract and beat in.
4. Add flour and salt mixture and stir until b L emded.
5. Cover and refigerate until dough is firm, at least 2 hours. Then roll into 1 inch balls, place on prepared pans.
6. Make a indentation with a wooden spoon handle or a thumb,if it cracks just smooth it over , place some cherry jam in each indentation. Keep dough cool. If it warms during batches chill it don't work with warm sticky dough.
7. Bake for 13 to 15 minutes until slightly golden. Cool in pans 5 minutes then transfer to racks to cool completely before glazing.
8. GLAZE COOKIES.
9. Melt semisweet chocolate, just until smooth. Drizzle over cooled cookies.
10. Melt white chocolate just until smooth, . Drizzle over cookies. Let cookies sit about 30 minutes to set choclate up..

Beat in egg yolk and vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour and cocoa; gradually beat into creamed mixture. If for some reason the thumbprint indentations have puffed up, very carefully press with the back of a measuring spoon (or a similar object) to re-shape it. Cherry Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies are simple, yet decadent and even elegant holiday cookies that are so easy to put together that even a kid can make them. Or, in this case, even a Platter Talk Kid.