Today is Children in Need and in school we had a Strictly Come Dancing day. All of us staff were dolled up with ball gowns and tiaras and I certainly got some odd looks while I was defrosting my car this morning! To raise money we had a cake stall. I made some cinder toffee, boiled fruit cake and some thumbprint cookies. I've never made thumbprint cookies before, but was inspired by some I saw on tastespotting a couple of weeks ago. The cookies tasted nice, but I made the huge mistake of using cheap cheap jam and it just wouldn't do anything but sit there in a horrible looking blob. Next time I'll use decent jam.
Thumbprint cookies
Makes about 28
140g plain flour
50g ground almonds
110g butter
50g granulated sugar
Jam
1) Preheat oven to 180oc. Cream sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Mix flour and almonds then add to the butter cream. Mix well until combined. Form into dough ball
2) Refrigerate dough for 30 minutes. Line 2 baking trays.
3) Take about a teaspoon worth of dough and shape into a ball. Place on baking sheet and press firmly in the middle with your thumb. Continue with the rest of the dough. Place 2 inches apart.
4) Bake for 8 minutes. Take out of the oven and put about 1/4 tsp of jam in the cookie thumbprint. Return to the oven for 7 minutes or until beginning to lightly brown on the edges. Cool on baking rack.
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Hi Jules,
ReplyDeleteI bet you all looked beautiful in your ball gowns and tiaras for CIN... Well done for taking part for such a good cause :)
Mmmmmm and all those goodies baked for the cake stall too!! Those thumb prints look rather tempting from here ......lol
Rosie x
Yum. Do you think this would work with rice flour? I have a bag full waiting for a purpose.
ReplyDeleteMallika - I'm not sure about the rice flour as I've never used it before, but you can always give it a go.
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