16/12/2020
Vegan Thumbprint Cookies⠀🍪🎄
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These are one of my favorite cookies to make around Christmas time! I subbed out regular butter for vegan butter - I couldn’t tell a difference in taste. I used the jams + jelly’s in my advent calendar for variation but feel free to use just one kind. ⠀
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INGREDIENTS⠀
* 1 cup (2 sticks/16 TB) salted butter, softened (I used vegan butter!)⠀
* 1/2 cup confectioners’ (powdered) sugar, plus 1/4 cup more for dusting⠀
* 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract⠀
* 1/8 tsp table salt⠀
* 2 cups all purpose flour⠀
* 1/2 cup thick fruit preserves (i.e., raspberry, blackberry, peach)⠀
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INSTRUCTIONS⠀
1. Preheat oven to 325°F with rack on middle position.⠀
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment on high speed, beat butter and sugar until creamy and light, 2-3 minutes (do not rush this part, as it will determine how your dough turns out.) Add vanilla and salt, scraping down bowl as needed. Switch to medium-low and gently mix in flour, just until combined. Dough should be somewhat sticky.⠀
3. Roll tablespoonfuls of dough into 1-inch balls. Place dough balls on parchment-lined baking sheets or silicone baking mats. Press down the center of each ball with handle-end of a wooden spatula or finger, making a deep well in the middle – deep but not too wide (it helps to hold the dough ball in palm of hand while forming the well with your finger.)⠀
4. Fill cookie centers generously with jam/preserves. Bake 20-25* minutes or until golden brown and puffy. Let cool 5 min. on baking sheet, then gently transfer to finish cooling on wire rack.⠀
5. When cookies are completely cooled, dust with confectioners’ sugar. Cookies can be kept in airtight container at room temp for a few days.