Chocolate Thumbprints
- 12 cup butter, softened
- 23 cup sugar
- 1 egg, seperated
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup flour
- 13 cup cocoa
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup walnuts, chopped
- 26 Hershey chocolate kisses (Hugs, peanut butter cups, pecan halves, or candied cherry halves could also be used)
- 12 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon butter, softened
- 2 teaspoons milk
- 14 teaspoon vanilla
- Beat butter, sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla in medium bowl until light and fluffy.
- In another bowl, stir flour, cocoa and salt.
- Add to butter mixture gradually until blended.
- Refrigerate dough until firm (about 1 hour).
- Heat oven to 350.
- Lightly grease cookie sheet.
- Shape dough into 1 inch balls.
- Beat egg white slightly with fork.
- Dip each ball into egg white then roll in nuts (I've also done without the egg/nut mixture due to family preference).
- Place on cookie sheet.
- Press thumb gently in center of each cookie.
- Bake 10-12 minutes or until set.
- While cooking, prepare filling by combining powdered sugar, 1 T. butter, 2 t. milk, and 1/4 t. vanilla until smooth.
- Remove wrappers from candies.
- Remove cookies from cookie sheet to wire rack; cool 5 minutes.
- Spoon about 1/4 t. filling into each thumbprint.
- Gently press an unwrapped candy in center of each cookie.
- Cool completely.
butter, sugar, egg, milk, vanilla, flour, cocoa, salt, walnuts, chocolate kisses, powdered sugar, butter, milk, vanilla
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-thumbprints-270986 (may not work)