Holiday Thumbprint Cookies
Christmas time is upon us! Here in Boston, we finally had our first snow fall. When it snows, is there anything better than watching a movie, eating your favorites with a glass of wine? In our house, we watched football and drank Caymus until our teeth became purple. The snow is always a great reminder, that our favorite holiday feast is coming up. As we drank our wine watching the snow. We decided our contribution this year, would be the classic raspberry filled thumbprint cookie! Now, these cookies can be filled with Nutella or any jam of your choosing, but our family loves the classic. Note: This recipe does call for nuts.
INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup: unsalted butter
1/2 cup + 2 Tablespoon: granulated sugar
1.5 teaspoon: pure vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups: gluten-free flour (GF Classical Blend)
1/2 tsp: xanthan gum
1/4 tsp: salt
1: large eggs
1/2 teaspoon: baking powder
1/4 cup: finely ground almonds
DIRECTIONS
In a large bowl, beat your butter and sugar together. Add egg & vanilla. Mix until smooth.
Add flour, ground almonds, baking powder, xantham gum and salt. beat with your electric mixer until soft dough is formed. Chill until firm.
Preheat oven to 35 degrees & prepare your cookie sheet.
Portion out roughly 2 dozen cookie balls and place about an inch apart. Flatten the cookies and make a deep, but not all the way, indent into the center of each cookie using your thumb or teaspoon.
Bake cookies for about 8 minutes, remove pan, gently press down the centers again and return to oven for 12 minutes. The tops should be light golden and bottoms should be light golden brown.
While cookies are baking, warm jam in a small saucepan over low heat. You want it to be soft and pourable. For Nutella, you want room temp and spreadable. After the cookies are finished baking. Immediately fill the cookies with warm jam. Jam should be bulging over the top. Let cookies sit for 3 minutes then transfer to wire rack to cool. Let cookies chill filled cookies before stacking them for storage.
Top with your choice of powdered sugar, icing or leave as is!
