Thumb Print Cookies

Thumb Print Cookies are a basic cookie recipe that your kids will love to make with you. Especially when they get to stick their thumb in something.

You can substitute other ingredients for the jam, like chocolate kisses, dried cherries or dates. You can also bake the cookies without anything in the thumb print and fill with icing after they cool.

Try adding green food color to the dough for Christmas and filling with a red preserve. For Halloween you can mix in some red and yellow food coloring to make the batter orange.

For St. Patrick's day, you can add some mint jelly to the middle.

For Fourth of July, you can add red food coloring to the batter and put blueberry preserves in the middle. Or don't put anything in the middle, let them cool, then put in some white icing.

The possibilities are endless, just have fun with them.

Thumb Print Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

2/3 – cup sugar
2 – cups flour
2 – teaspoons vanilla
3/4 – cup margarine
1/2 – tsp baking powder
3/4 – cup preserves - strawberry - peach - raspberry or blueberry
1 – egg
Parchment Paper

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350°F.
Beat margarine and sugar with an electric mixer until fluffy
Add egg and vanilla and mix well.
With a large spoon or spatula, Stir in flour and baking powder.
Roll into 1 to 2 inch balls depending on the size cookie you want.
Flatten the balls out a bit on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and press thumb into the middle of the cookie
Fill the thumb impression with jelly.
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes.

Cookie Tip:

Try chilling the dough about 20 minutes before rolling into balls.This will help with the dough being too sticky.

You can use the back of a melon baller to make the impression for a more rounded hole.

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