What are Thumbprint Cookies?
Thumbprint cookies are known as that approach since you press right into a ball of uncooked cookie dough along with your thumb to create a crater. The cookies are then crammed with jelly or jam and baked.
They originated in Sweden, the place they’re known as Hallongrottor, which implies raspberry cave. The basic cookies are flavored with vanilla and crammed with raspberry jam.
Thumbprint cookies are additionally tremendous widespread in neighboring Scandinavian nations, in Germany, Austria, Italy, and Alsace (France).
We name them Kulleraugen (translated as operating eyes) in German, and my grandmother would make them yearly once more in Austria earlier than Christmas.
Original raspberry thumbprint cookies are shortbread cookies. They name Mör or Mördeg in Swedish and Mürbteig in German.
I taste mine with lemon zest or lemon extract as a substitute of vanilla as a result of I feel raspberry and lemon is the last word taste mixture.
