Thumbprint cookies

These are definitely some of my favorite holiday cookies - shortbread and jam is just such a good combination! We used some salted pistachios with some unsalted pecans for the nuts around the outside, and I liked that combination.


Thumbprint cookies
1/2C butter
1/4C brown sugar
1 egg, separated
1/2tsp vanilla
1C flour
1/4tsp salt
3/4C nuts, ground up
jam

Cream the butter and sugar together. Add the egg yolk and the vanilla. Add in the flour and salt, and mix that in. Form the dough into little balls, and press your thumb in the middle to make a hole, and set those aside.

Whip the egg white until its frothy, and put that in a shallow bowl. Put the ground nuts in another shallow bowl. Roll the cookies in the egg white and then in the nuts, and place on a greased cookie sheet. Once all the cookies are nutted, put a bit of jam in the hole of each cookie.

Bake at 350F for 10-12 minutes.