Spice 'n' Nut Thumbprints

Recipe Ingredients

3/4 cup	148g / 5.2oz	Butter - (1 1/2 sticks)
		Softened
1/2 cup	99g / 3.5oz	Sugar
1		Egg
1 teaspoon	5ml	Vanilla
1 3/4 cups	109g / 3.8oz	All-purpose flour
1/2 cup	118ml	Finely ground pecans or
		Almonds
1 teaspoon	5ml	Cinnamon
1/4 cup	59ml	Jam - such as strawberry
		Raspberry - or peach

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F.

Cream butter and sugar in lg mixer bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Add 1/2 of flour; mix well. Add remaining flour, nuts and cinnamon; mix well.

Shape dough into 1" balls. Place 1" apart on unbuttered cookie sheets. Lightly press center of each ball with thumb, or the handle of a wooden spoon, leaving cup-like indention.

Fill each indention w/ about 1/4 ts jam. Bake 18 minutes. or until lightly browned around edges. Transfer to wire racks; cool completely.

Source:
Cooking Light, Nov/Dec 1994, page 163

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