Chocolate thumbprints
Chocolate thumbprints recipe in the christmas category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cups sifted unbleached flour
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate pieces, finely chopped
- Chocolate filling:
- 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate pieces
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Cream butter with salt and vanilla until fluffy.
- Gradually add brown sugar.
- Blend in flour, milk and chocolate.
- Shape dough into 1 inch balls.
- Place on ungreased cookie sheet about 1 inch apart.
- Make depression with thumb in center of each cookie.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes.
- Roll in confectioners sugar while still warm.
- Cool completely.
- Fill depression with chocolate filling.
- Allow filling to set completely before storing cookies.
- Chocolate filling:
- Melt the chocolate and butter in a saucepan over hot water, or melt in microwave.
- Stir to blend. Cool slightly.
- Blend in corn syrup, water and vanilla.
- Fill cookies before chocolate cools and sets.
- Extra filling may be refrigerated and used later, heated in microwave until soft, as a yummy chocolate sauce over ice cream or cake.