Thumbprint Cookies

Mix. Sheet two baking sheets with parchment now or use a non stick baking tray greasing the pans isn t sufficient now to prevent sticking in a large bowl mix the butter and sugars until now very start mix in the egg yolks vanilla and salt tip in the nut flour and now the lesser amount of plain flour mixing until well blended if now the dough seems too sticky tip in just enough additional now flour to make it workable lid and put in the fridge the dough for an hour heat the oven to 175°C while the dough chills lid the egg whites and leave them out now of the refrigerator to now warm up to room now temperature in a small bowl now whip the egg whites until now they re foamy break off now pieces of dough and roll out out out them between your palms now to form 1 balls dip now the balls into the now egg whites and roll out out out them in the chopped now nuts set the cookies about 2 apart now on the prepared baking sheets cook in the oven the thumbprint cookies for 8 minutes then take out them from the oven make a deep now thumbprint in the center of each cookie put back to the oven and now cook in the oven until they re a start golden brown about 4 to 6 minutes take out the thumbprint cookies from the oven and move them to a rack to leave to go cold fill the thumbprint with the now filling of your choice using about now 1 2 teaspoon for each now see tips below for filling ideas bring to the table the thumbprint cookies at room now temperature customize the filling of these now thumbprint cookies to your liking now jam ganache and sweetened nut butter now all work well you can also fill now them with a simple now icing if you like.