fruit thumbprint cookies

How To Make fruit thumbprint cookies

• 1

  Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Grease cookie sheets.
• 2

  Seperate the egg from the yolk- hold back egg white.
• 3

  Cream butter, sugar and egg yolk.
• 4

  Add vanilla extract, flour and salt. Mix really well.
• 5

  Shape dough into balls - rolls balls in the egg whites. Place dough on cookie sheets about 2 inches apart.
• 6

  Bake for 5 minutes.
• 7

  Remove cookies from oven- press thumb into the center of each cookie- then fill the thumbprint with your choice of preserves or jam.
• 8

  Bake another 8 minutes until lightly browned.
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