Lemon Thumbprint Cookies
Lemon Thumbprint Cookies takes around 45 minutes from beginning to end. This recipe serves 42. This dessert has 74 calories, 1g of protein, and 3g of fat per serving. For 14 cents per serving, this recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have butter, lemon juice,
- Prep time
- 13 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 42 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
- 3 ounces butter
- 4 egg yolks
- 2.5 cups flour
- 0.5 cup granulated sugar
- 0.5 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup lemon curd
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 lemon zest
Instructions
- 1
Pre heat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.With a mixer, beat butter and sugar together in a large bowl until well combined. Beat in yolks, lemon zest, lemon juice, and salt.On low speed, beat in flour just until large moist clumps form. You may need to use your hands at this point to form one large ball.
- 2
Roll tablespoons of dough into balls.
- 3
Place balls on prepared baking sheets about 1 inch apart. Make a deep indentation in center of each ball.
- 4
Bake cookies until firm and lightly golden on bottom, about 18 to 20 minutes.
- 5
Remove cookies from oven and immediately fill indentations with curd.
- 6
Sprinkle with confectioners sugar before serving.