Thumb Print Cookies

These are so much fun and pretty delicious!

Mix up the following (in order)
1 c. butter
2/3 c. sugar

Felicity and Sadie demostrating :)

1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla (or almond)
2 1/2 c. flour
1/2 tsp. salt

(with clean hands) take a teaspoon of dough and roll it into a ball.

They look so serious :)
 

 Press a thumbprint in each cookie.

Fill the thumbprint with jelly/jam or whatever sounds good to you.  The girls and I decided to use our homemade grape jelly.  (It doesn't sound that good-grape jelly on a cookie-but trust me...it's delicious!)

Bake in a 350 degree oven for 8 minutes.  These cookies won't really brown and they stay the same size. You know when they are done because they still look like dough but they are hard (that makes them 

sound awful, but they really are good).

Make a thumbprint in each cookie

Cookie Closeup 

I kept emphasizing "carefully fill the thumbprints
with jelly", but then just decided, "oh well" and let
her fill them in her 3 yr old way :)

You won't see Sadie in this picture, I have her trained...

Me: Sadie, I'm opening the oven

Sadie: *Gasp* I'm going to the frig.

The frig is the safe place from the oven :)

This is what they look like when they're done

Variation

We also took the same dough, 

rolled into balls (except Felicity, 

she made them cube shaped...they

turned out very cool looking!) and

hid a chocolate chip inside.  They

weren't as good as the jelly ones,

but still good!