Thumbprint Cookies

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter, room temperature
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• raspberry jam (see note above in description)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350-degrees f.
• 2 spray cookie sheets with pam or grease with butter (or use the butter wrappers from the butter to help grease pans). set aside.
• 3 in a small cup (i use a tea cup) combine 2 tablespoons sugar with cinnamon. set aside.
• 4 in a large bowl combine next 3 ingredients (flour -salt). stir in butter, egg yolk and vanilla and beat with an electric mixer until combined.
• 5 form dough into 1-inch rounds (if dough is too soft, refrigerate for 1 hour).
• 6 arrange rounds on prepared cookie sheets, spacing 1-inch apart.
• 7 using fingers (this is the part that kids like to help with), make indentations in centers of half of the rounds. using a small spoon (a baby spoon works great) fill indentations with cinnamon sugar.
• 8 bake all rounds for 5 minutes. remove from oven.
• 9 make indentations in centers of remaining rounds and fill with jam (see description above).
• 10 return to oven and bake for 8-10 minutes.