Raspberry Almond Thumbprint Cookies

These amazing shortbread cookies are filled with raspberry jam and drizzled with a sweet almond icing!

Since I have made a few thumbprint cookie recipes now, I feel much more confident about making them and decided to try my hand at a shortbread like cookie with a raspberry filling and a sweet almond icing. These were easy to make and delightful. They aren't overly sweet, but they are just the right amount of sweetness to keep you coming back for more, if that makes sense.

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What you need:
For the cookies:

• 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 2/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp. almond extract
• 2 cups + 2 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup raspberry jam

For the icing:

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 to 2 Tbsp. milk
• 1 tsp. almond extract

Directions:

1. For the cookies: With a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter on high speed until creamy. 
2. Then switch to medium speed and add sugar, vanilla, and almond extract. Scrape down sides as needed.
3. Add flour to mixer and mix on low until a soft dough forms.
4. Press dough down and then tightly cover it with plastic cling wrap.
5. Chill in refrigerator for about 4 hours, at the least.
6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
7. Shape cookie dough into 1 Tbsp. balls that are smooth and even. If the dough gets sticky or soft after rolling, place dough balls back into refrigerator to chill.
8. Make an indentation in each ball of dough with your thumb or the back of a melon baller. If it cracks, smooth it out.
9. Fill each indentation with a scant 1/2 tsp. jam.
10. Bake for 13 to 15 minutes until lightly browned around the edges. Cool for 5 minutes on cookie sheet before moving to a wire rack to cool for 30 minutes.
11. For the glaze: Whisk together glaze ingredients until smooth. Add additional milk, if needed.
12. Drizzle glaze over cooled cookies and let sit until glaze sets.

Recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction

 

These Gingerbread Thumbprint Cookies are the perfect winter cookie! However, with spring coming sooner rather than later, these bright Lemon Thumbprint Cookies from Cookies & Cups are definitely enough to pull you out of the winter funk.

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