What are Thumbprint Cookies?

Thumbprint cookies are referred to as that means since you press right into a ball of uncooked cookie dough along with your thumb to create a crater. The cookies are then crammed with jelly or jam and baked.

They originated in Sweden, the place they’re referred to as Hallongrottor, which suggests raspberry cave. The traditional cookies are flavored with vanilla and crammed with raspberry jam.

Thumbprint cookies are additionally tremendous well-liked in neighboring Scandinavian nations, in Germany, Austria, Italy, and Alsace (France).

We name them Kulleraugen (translated as working eyes) in German, and my grandmother would make them yearly once more in Austria earlier than Christmas.

Authentic raspberry thumbprint cookies are shortbread cookies. They name Mör or Mördeg in Swedish and Mürbteig in German.

I taste mine with lemon zest or lemon extract as an alternative of vanilla as a result of I feel raspberry and lemon is the final word taste mixture.