Recipe by Susie Fishbein

Almond Thumbprint Cookies

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Dairy Dairy
Medium Medium
16 Servings
Allergens
35 Minutes
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The almond trees are blooming! These creamy-chocolate-in-every-bite cookies will make Tu-Bishvat your favorite Jewish festival.

Ingredients

Cookies

  • 1 and 1/2 cups flour

  • 1/2 cup whole almonds, not roasted or salted

  • 1/4 cup sugar

  • 1/2 teaspoon Tuscanini Sea Salt

Chocolate Filling

Directions

Make the Cookies

1.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit and line two cookie sheets with Gefen Easy Baking Parchment Paper.

2.

Place the almonds, sugar, and salt into the bowl of a food processor fitted with a metal blade and pulse until very finely ground.

3.

Add the vanilla and almond extract and pulse two to three times. Add the butter and pulse until evenly mixed. Add the flour and pulse until a smooth dough forms. You will need to scrape down the bowl a few times.

4.

Scoop dough by level tablespoons and roll each into a smooth ball. Place on prepared cookie sheet. Using a rounded teaspooon measure or your thumb, create a depression in each dough ball to flatten the dough and make a well that will hold the chocolate.

5.

Bake for 10 minutes. Remove tray from oven and re-press each indentation. Return tray to oven and bake for an additional 10 minutes. Cool completely.

6.

Place the chocolate and butter into a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high power, using 20 second intervals, stirring in between each interval until completely melted. Using a spoon, fill the cookie indentations. Allow to harden slightly. Store the cookies in the refrigerator but serve at room temperature.

Notes:

Note from The Baker’s Daughter (Kosher Scoop Cookie Columnist), who reviewed this cookbook back in 2012: I found I needed one and a half times the chocolate filling to fill 30 cookies.

Make the Cookies

Yields 24–48 cookies

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Excerpted with permission from Kosher by Design Cooking Coach with permission from the copyright holders ArtScroll/Mesorah Ltd

Almond Thumbprint Cookies

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