❤️ About This Recipe
Made with simple ingredients: These eggless shortbread thumbprint cookies require 7 pantry staple ingredients only. All of them are easily available in your pantry right now.
🧾 Ingredients For Eggless Thumbprint Cookies
Here is the pic of the ingredients you’ll need to make these eggless thumbprint cookies.
Soft, rich, buttery, and perfectly sweet shortbread cookies A hint of almond flavor from the almond extract. A sweet and tangy taste from the jam in the center. The top layer of the jam gets slightly caramelized during baking providing a nice chewy texture.
Butter: Always use good quality unsalted butter so I can control the salt in the recipe. Use room-temperature softened butter. Sugar: White sugar is used. Almond & Vanilla extract: You can simply use just one. But both together give a good flavor. Flour: You’ll need plain all purpose flour for this eggless thumbprint cookies. Jam: I have used seedless raspberry jam. You can use your choice of any jam like apricot, strawberry, peach, etc.
👩🍳 How To Make Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies?
- Take softened butter, sugar, almond extract and vanilla in a stand mixer bowl.
- Attach the paddle attachment and beat it until it is light and fluffy.
- Add flour and salt.
- Run the mixer again until the dough comes together.
- Shape the dough into tablespoon-sized balls and place them on a cookie tray by spacing 2 inches apart.
- Make an indentation using a ½ teaspoon measuring spoon.
- Fill the indentation of each cookie ball with jam. The jam will shrink as you bake so make sure to add enough. Now chill the cookie tray in the fridge for around 30 minutes. If you skip chilling the cookies balls then cookies will spread a lot more. Preheat the oven to 350F (180C) for at least 10 minutes. If needed line a baking sheet with parchment paper and keep it ready.
- Bake in preheated oven for around 15-18 minutes or until lightly golden from the bottom. Let the cookies cool in the pan itself for 5 minutes then transfer them to a cooling rack to cool down completely.
💭 Expert Tips For Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies
Always chill the shaped cookies and not the cookie dough. Making a neat indentation in the chill cookie ball is hard (impossible). Do not skip chilling the shaped cookies otherwise, they will spread too much in the oven while baking. Fill jam right to the edge (or a slightly more) in the indentation as the jam will shrink or reduce during baking. For a variation, you can drizzle the icing sugar glaze on cooled cookies. Try other filling options than jam Caramel Chocolate ganache Eggless lemon curd Dulce de leche Nutella
🥣 Storage Instructions For Eggless Thumbprint
Shortbread thumbprint cookies stay fresh for 5-6 days at room temperature in an airtight container. You can freeze the baked cookies and they stay good for up to 1 month. Don’t forget to keep the parchment paper between the layers of the cookie for mess-free freezing. Shaped cookie balls with indentations can be frozen for up to 3 months. At the time of baking, fill the indentation with jam and bake as directed (plus a couple of more minutes for frozen cookies).
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