Patriotic Red, White & Blue Thumbprint Cookies
These Red, White, and Blue Thumbprint Cookies are a classic recipe and perfect for a celebration. This buttery cookie is hard to resist with the colorful patriotic icing and sprinkles
Servings 22 cookies
Calories 102kcal
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter softened
- ¼ cup light brown sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 11/2 tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup AP flour
- ¼ tsp. salt
- 5 ounces red, white and and blue sprinkles
Powdered sugar icing
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 tablespoons light corn syrup
- red gel food color
- blue gel food coloring
Instructions
Making cookie dough
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F., and prepare cookie sheets parchment paper or a Silpat
- In a large mixing bowl add the softened butter, sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla and mix with a handheld mixer on medium speed until completely mixed and creamy. Scrape the bowl with a rubber spatula. You can also use a stand mixer for this.
- Mix in the flour and salt at low speed until combined and the dough holds its shape.
- Place the nonpareils in a bowl big enough to roll the dough balls.
- Shape the dough into 1" balls using a small cookie scoop or a tablespoon, then immediately roll in the nonpareils. The warmth of your hands helps make the dough balls a little soft so the nonpareils will stick better.
- Place the balls 1" apart on the baking sheets and using a teaspoon measuring spoon press and indent into each cookie. You can also use your thumb to make the indent.
- Bake for 10 minutes until lightly browned, then remove from oven to cooling rack.
Making the powdered sugar icing
- Add the powered sugar to a medium-sized bowl and use a small whisk or a fork to break up any lumps in the sugar.
- Add the milk and corn syrup then mix until the icing is smooth.
- Separate the icing into three small bowls, about ⅓ cup of each. Add a drop of red food coloring to one bowl, blue food coloring to another bowl then stir until the food coloring is combined. If you want a deeper color add a small amount of food color and stir.Now you have red, white and blue icing colors.
- With a small teaspoon drop icing into each cookies thumbprint. It usually takes about an hour for the icing to harden, at this point store the cookies in an airtight container for up to four day.
Notes
You can make many variations for this cookie with different colors of sprinkles and different colors of icing.
You can freeze these cookies once the icing has fully hardened. Place the cookies in an airtight container with a piece of wax paper or parchment paper in between each layer. To defrost, remove the cookies from the layers and let them thaw on the countertop in one layer.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1 | Calories: 102kcal | Carbohydrates: 16g | Fat: 4.1g | Cholesterol: 17mg | Sodium: 81mg