Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies With Jam Food

PEANUT BUTTER THUMBPRINT COOKIES WITH JAM

Steps:

• Combine the butter, peanut butter and brown sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer. Beat on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract.
• In another bowl, whisk together the gluten-free flour, xanthan gum, baking soda and salt. Add this mixture to the peanut butter mixture and beat until just combined. Transfer the dough to a piece of plastic wrap and cover it. Refrigerate for at least one hour or overnight.
• Pre-heat oven to 375°F. and Line a baking sheet (or several, if you have them!) with parchment paper. Use a medium cookie scoop to scoop tablespoons of dough onto the cookie sheet. Use a thumb or the handle end of a wooden spoon to make a divot in the center of each cookie. Bake for 7-9 minutes or until puffed and mostly set.
• If the divots rise too much during baking, just use your thumb to press them back down as they cool.
• Allow the cookies to cool completely, then fill each divot with about a 1/2 teaspoon of jam. Depending on the thickness of your jam, you may want to microwave it for ten seconds to make filling easier.

PEANUT BUTTER JAM THUMBPRINTS

Steps:

• Whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt together in a medium bowl. Set aside.
• In a large bowl using a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter on medium-high speed until smooth, about 1 minute. Add the brown sugar and granulated sugar and beat on medium-high speed until creamed, about 2 minutes. Add the egg and beat on high speed until combined, about 1 minute. Scrape down the sides and up the bottom of the bowl and beat again as needed to combine. On medium-high speed, beat in the peanut butter and vanilla until combined.
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix on low until combined. Dough will be thick and soft. Cover and chill the dough for at least 1 hour (and up to 2-3 days) in the refrigerator.
• Remove dough from the refrigerator and roll into balls, 1 scant Tablespoon (5/8 ounce or 18g) of dough each. Roll each ball into crushed peanuts. Indent your thumb or the bottom end of a rubber spatula or wooden spoon into the center of each dough ball to make a crevice. Place each on 1 or 2 large plates or a lined large baking sheet. Loosely cover the dough balls and chill for 2 hours (and up to 2 days).
• Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Line 2-3 large baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
• Remove dough balls from the refrigerator and arrange on the baking sheets 3 inches apart. Spoon heaping 1/2 teaspoon of jam into each indent.
• Bake for 11-13 minutes or until lightly browned on the sides. The jam won't look completely set, but will set as the cookies cool. Mine usually take the full 13 minutes.
• Remove from the oven. Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
• You can melt the white chocolate in a double boiler or the microwave. If using the microwave: place the chopped white chocolate in a medium heat-proof bowl. Melt in 20 second increments in the microwave, stirring after each increment until completely melted and smooth. Stir in peanut butter and drizzle lightly over cookies. Allow the drizzle to set completely at room temperature for about 30 minutes or in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
• Cookies stay fresh covered at room temperature for 2 days or in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

BUTTER AND JAM THUMBPRINTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone mats.
• Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together in a bowl.
• In another bowl, whip the butter and the sugar with a hand-held mixer until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in the egg and vanilla until just combined. Slowly beat in the dry ingredients in 2 additions, mixing just until incorporated.
• Scoop the dough into 1-inch balls with a cookie or ice cream scoop and roll in sugar. Place about 2-inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. Press a thumbprint into the center of each ball, about 1/2-inch deep. Fill each indentation with about 3/4 teaspoon jam.
• Bake cookies until the edges are golden, about 15 minutes. (For even color, rotate the pans from top to bottom about halfway through baking.) Cool cookies on the baking sheets. Serve.
• Store cookies in a tightly sealed container for up to 5 days.

PEANUT BUTTER AND JAM COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In large bowl, cream together butter, peanut butter, and sugars.
• Add egg and vanilla, mix until smooth.
• In a small bowl, mix flour, salt and baking soda.
• Stir into butter mixture until completely blended.
• Form dough into balls and flatten with thumb, on cookie sheet, to make a well.
• Drop 1 tsp of jam into each well.
• Bake until lightly browned around the edges, 10-12 minutes.
• Let cool on cookie sheet for 1 min before removing.

PEANUT BUTTER THUMBPRINT COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• In large mixer bowl, beat butter, brown sugar and peanut butter until well blended.
• Add eggs and vanilla; beat well.
• Stir together flour, baking powder and baking soda.
• Gradually add to peanut butter mixture.
• Shape dough into 1 inch balls; roll in chopped peanuts.
• Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until cookies are just set.
• Press thumb gently in center of each cookie; cool slightly.
• Remove from cooking sheet and cool completely.
• Prepare thumbprint filling:.
• In small mixer bowl; beat cream cheese, corn syrup and vanilla until well blended.
• Add melted chocolate chips, beating well.
• Gradually add powdered sugar; beating until blended and smooth. (Makes about 1 1/3 cups of filling).
• Pipe about 1/2 teaspoon filling into each thumbprint.
• Note: On cooking time I just put 10 minutes because it depends on how many cookies you are able to put on each cookie sheet; how many cookie sheets you have; if you have a double oven, etc.

PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY THUMBPRINT COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°.
• In a large bowl, mix sugar and butter.
• Add vanilla and egg, mixing well.
• Stir in flour and salt.
• Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.
• Make indent in cookie with finger.
• First put about 1/4 tsp peanut butter in cookie; top peanut butter with about 1/4 tsp strawberry jam, filling indentation.
• Bake at 300° for 20-25 minutes or until edges are golden.
• Remove immediately from cookie sheet and cool on wire rack.

PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY THUMBPRINT COOKIES

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl.
• Beat butter, peanut butter, white sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla together in a separate bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes. Scrape sides of bowl with a rubber spatula. Add egg to butter mixture and beat on medium speed until blended. Scrape side of bowl down again.
• Beat flour mixture into butter mixture on low speed until just blended. Scrape bowl and mix a few more seconds.
• Scoop dough into 2 tablespoon-sized balls and arrange on a baking sheet. Cover baking sheet and refrigerate at least 4 hours (overnight is ideal).
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper and arrange cookie balls atop paper.
• Bake cookies in the preheated oven until partially cooked, 11 minutes.
• Place raspberry jam in a bowl and stir until syrup consistency.
• Press a soda bottle cap into the center of each cookie until edges of cookies bulge and begin to crack, making an indentation. Fill each indentation with about 1 teaspoon jam.
• Bake cookies until edges are lightly browned, 7 minutes longer. Cool cookies completely on the baking sheet before transferring to a wire rack.