Thumbprint Cookies

6-Ingredient Jam Thumbprint Cookies

The Spruce / Abby Mercer

Prep: 15 mins
Cook: 10 mins
Total: 25 mins
Servings: 96 servings

Only six ingredients go into these buttery jam-filled thumbprint cookies. Use your favorite jam or preserves in the centers of these cookies. 

This recipe was adapted from a vintage Mississippi cookbook.

Ingredients

Steps to Make It

  1. Gather the ingredients. Heat the oven to 400 F.

    6-Ingredient Jam Thumbprint Cookies ingredients

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  2. In a large mixing bowl with electric mixer, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.

    cream butter and sugar together in a bowl

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  3.  Add egg yolks and vanilla to the creamed mixture; blend well.

    butter, sugar, and egg in a bowl

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  4. Stir in the flour until well blended. If the dough is too soft to handle, work in little more flour.

    dough in a bowl

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  5.  Roll dough into small balls. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet.

    dough balls on a baking sheet

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  6. Press a thumb or finger in the center of each ball of dough to make an indentation.

    thumb pressed into the cookie dough on the baking sheet

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  7.  Fill the thumbprint with your raspberry or strawberry jam or your favorite jam or preserves.

     Fill the thumbprint with strawberry jam

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  8. Bake a small first batch, and if the cookies in the first batch spread too much, work a little more flour into the dough. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until light brown around edges.

    6-Ingredient Jam Thumbprint Cookies

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