Baking · serves 2
Swedish Thumbprint Cookies
Press a hole with your thumb, fill with jam. The first biscuit worth teaching a child.
Ingredients
- 200g butter, softened
- 130g icing sugar
- 310g plain flour
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp milk
- A pinch of salt
- Jam or chocolate chunks to fill
Method
- Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
- Flour, cornflour, vanilla, milk and salt in, to a soft but firm dough. Another spoon of milk if it's dry.
- Roll 2.5cm balls with floured hands, 5cm apart.
- Press each down by a quarter with a wet finger.
- Wet thumb, make a deep indent almost through to the tray. Shallow indents close up as they bake.
- Half a teaspoon of jam in each.
- 180°C for 10-15 minutes until golden at the edges.