Thumbprint Cookies
Thumbprint Cookies – Best, buttery and sweet cookies filled with raspberry jam.
Easy recipe that anyone can make this holiday season.
December is a happy month. It is a month about baking really outstanding cookies for the upcoming holiday season; it is also a month filled with holiday parties, great friends, and family.
So this month, I am sharing a few of my favorite cookies recipes as well as party foods with you.
When I decided to make thumbprint cookies, I knew that I had to buy an excellent jam.
After all, thumbprint cookies are precisely butter cookies filled with jam.
Rasberry jam is an excellent filling for the thumbprint cookies.
I love the fresh taste of the berries, the slight tartness, with just the perfect balance of sweetness, and the aroma…oh, the aroma and fragrance of the berries.
Anyway, thumbprint cookie is a holiday classic so if you are making them this year, you can try out my thumbprint cookies recipe.
Happy holidays!
Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
Thumbprint Cookies - Best, buttery and sweet cookies filled with raspberry jam. Easy recipe that anyone can make this holiday season.
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour (222 g)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cups unsalted butter, softened (6 oz./ 170 g)
- 1/2 cup fine baking sugar (113 g)
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- raspberry jam
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350°F (~180°C). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
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Sieve the flour and salt into a bowl. Whisk it and set aside.
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Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add in the vanilla extract. Beat to combine.
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Slowly add in the flour mixture spoon by spoon. Use a spatula to scrap down the flour on the side and bottom as needed. Make sure the mixture is well combined. The dough becomes crumbly but will hold together when pinched.
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Using your hand, take out approximately 1 tablespoonful of the dough. Knead it on your palm with your fingers a few times and then roll into a 1" ball. Place them on the baking sheet 2" apart. Use your thumb and press a well in the center. Fill each well with 1/2 teaspoon jam.
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Bake for 10-12 minutes. Transfer to wire tray to cool completely before storing them in air tight container.
Recipe Notes
This recipe is halved from the original recipe.
You can use your preferred jam for the  filling. If the jam is too thin, simmer it over low heat to reduce the water content in the jam.
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Cheryl
Can you freeze these cookies like shortbread cookies Use to make them growing up but they were are before we could attempt to hide them lol
Rasa Malaysia
I think so, but I think it’s better you make 2x or 3x the batch and you don’t have to hide. Lol.
Gail
Disaster. Too crumbly to form. Maybe it is the altitude: 4900 feet? Added an egg and 1/4 cup cream. Waiting for them to come out of the oven. Hoping to salvage something.
Rasa Malaysia
I am so sorry I am not sure what happened but the recipe yields what you see on the photos.
Stacy
I made these cookies last night for Christmas Eve. I did not have any castor/fine sugar, so I just used regular granulated sugar. It did not seem to be an issue, the cookies still tasted great. The only issue I had was the dough was just too crumbly and didn’t stick together even when kneaded, so I added about a TBSP more of butter and that seemed to do the trick. These were a huge hit. Out of the 3 dozen cookies this made, I only had 4 left at the end of the night. And there were only 8 of us here! Lol. Thank you for an easy and tasty cookie recipe!!
Rasa Malaysia
Hi Stacy, so glad that you love these thumbprint cookies. :)
Juliann
also my first time using castor/fine sugar… had some trouble locating it. i would be curious to try these using regular granulated white sugar just to compare.
Rasa Malaysia
Regular sugar doesn’t dissolve in the cookie dough.
Juliann
so easy to make and super delish. I found that the kneading the dough before making the individual balls really helps to keep from crumbling. it is tough to tell when they’re done though because the sides don’t really brown so after 12 minutes I would take them out and pick one up with a spatula to look at the bottom. a bit time consuming but totally worth it! can’t wait to share these at my cookie exchange!! (if i don’t eat them all first myself! ;) )
Rasa Malaysia
Glad that you tried my recipe.
poisinkandy
My mother used to make these using cherry and mint jellies to make them Christmas colors growing up.
Mini
Wonderful cookies!i made it after much hesitation but was amazed at the result.must try.thanks for such mess free n esy recipe with minimal ingredients.
Anna
Hi Niv, I have made these cookies several times and they turn out fine. When the cookies flatten out in the oven, usually it means there are too much butter or the dough was too soft. What was the texture of the dough when you mix it? Crumbly?
Niv
Hi! I just tried making these, and they were a disaster! They completely swelled up and flattened out while baking, so the jam ran all over… They were still soft after 15 mins in the oven, and then crumbled after cooling, because they became so thin :( Any idea where I went wrong? Was planning these for a thank you gift, but had to go the store- bought way finally…
Kae
What is fine sugar? Is it powder sugar?
Rasa Malaysia
Castor sugar.
Linda
Hi! May i know how long can these cookies keep in an airtight container?
Rasa Malaysia
Don’t keep it for too long, max 1 week.
Natalie
These look fantastic and super easy :)
Addie
Made these last night. Incredible melt in your mouth buttery goodness! I made sure the thumb printed balls were intact when I placed them on the baking sheet but a third of them still crumbled apart after baking. Any recs for better cohesiveness .
Rasa Malaysia
Thank you for trying my recipe.
Make sure the butter and flour are well combined (very important). Dough with more flour will crumble apart. If you feel the dough is dry as you were rolling into balls, add 1 teaspoon of milk at a time to the dough and mix/knead them back together. Hope this will help.
Fern @ To Food with Love
Yeah it’s that time of the year to bake lots of cookies. Wish I could try some of that jam…sure looks good!
Bren (@BG_garden)
These are my favorite to make each year! Thank you for sharing so I could tweet about it.
Jayne
Such a stress free but simple recipe! I like that you can easily switch it up using whatever jam available on hand. I think Nutella will be good in this, as it is good in everything!
Denise Browning
Hi, Bee! What an easy-to-make, delicious recipe! Thanks for sharing it and for the baking tips. Since my country has a huge variety of fruits, I’ll use our delicious tropical jams to top my cookies. The guava one will be my first…
Claudio Gotlib
These recepies are wonderfull,sometimes if hard to get the ingredients but with patiente ypou make it
Sharmila
These look such a treat! And I love that jam!