Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

Prep Time:

10 min

Cook Time:

15 min

Total Time:

25 min

Servings:

Chocolate thumbprint cookies are a sweet dessert perfect for the holidays or entertaining a crowd. Topped with chocolate candy pieces and chopped nuts, these cookies are a bite sized festive treat.

Ingredients

1 cup margarine or butter, slightly softened
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 cups Quaker® Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
1 tsp vanilla
1 ⅔ cups ground macadamia nuts or pecans, divided
1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
2 eggs
48 chocolate candy pieces, unwrapped

How to make it

1

Heat oven to 350°F.
2

Lightly grease cookie sheet.
3

Beat together margarine and sugar until creamy.
4

Add egg yolks and vanilla; beat well.
5

Add combined oats, flour and 2/3 cup ground nuts; mix well.
6

In small bowl, beat egg whites with fork until frothy.
7

Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
8

Dip in egg whites; press one side into remaining nuts.
9

Place ball nut side up 1-inch apart on prepared cookie sheet; press thumb deeply in center of each.
10

Bake 8 minutes; remove from oven; Place one chocolate piece in each center.
11

Return to oven and continue baking 5 to 7 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned.
12

Remove to wire rack; cool completely.
13

Store in tightly covered container.