ButterTart Thumbprint Cookies

Cookie dough:

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup butter
• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup ground pecans * if you cannot find ground pecans, just use chopped pecans and grind them in the food processor
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 2 1/2 cups flour

Butter tart filling:

• 1 tbsp unsalted butter + 1 tsp
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp whipping cream
• 1 tsp vinegar
• 1 tsp cornstarch
• 2 tbsp raisins *pecans can be substituted -finely chopped

Instructions

Butter tart Filling:

• In little pot on stove high, add vanilla and light whipping cream, heat, then add butter.

• during a separate bowl, mix egg, and refined sugar.

• Add egg mixture to heat cream mixture and simmer on low, then add vinegar and starch.

• Keep whisking till thickened on med-low heat for regarding 10-15 minutes. It ought to be the consistency of gravy. take away from heat and put aside to cool down. when ten minutes, refrigerate.

Cookie dough:

• heat up kitchen appliance to 350 degrees F.

• In massive bowl, cream butter and sugar till combined. Add eggs and blend well,

• during a separate bowl, add flour, ground pecan and leavening along. combine with spoon till it becomes to stiff to continue employing a spoon, then use your hands to combine the dough along till it's fully incorporated.

• cowl and chill dough for one hour

Assembly:

• Roll dough into one " (approximately) balls. If the dough feels sticky, certify you've got some flour close to flour your hands as required.

• Press thumb into centre of ball to create a pit

• Press outside edges of cookie with a floured fork, as you'd round the fringe of a pie

• Bake for 10-12 minutes till gently brunet on all-time low

• As shortly because the cookies area unit out of the kitchen appliance, use your thumb or all-time low of a teaspoon to strengthen indent in cookie.

• Fill indent with regarding 1/2 tsp of cooled butter tart filling.

• still cool on rack for five minutes

• Store in electric refrigerator for ten days or freeze for up to four months  
• Enjoy