Thimble Cookies recipe

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Ingredients

½ cup butter
¼ cup white sugar
1 egg yolk, beaten
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 egg white
1 cup finely chopped walnuts
1 cup (approx.) raspberry jam or jelly

Nutrition Info

262.2 calories
carbohydrate: 32 g
cholesterol: 37.4 mg
fat: 14.5 g
fiber: 0.9 g
protein: 3.2 g
saturatedFat: 5.6 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 60.2 mg
sugar: 21.4 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

  2. Cream butter and sugar, add yolk and lemon juice and beat well. Stir in flour until well blended.

  3. Form into 1 inch balls, dip into beaten egg white then into chopped nuts. Place on greased cookie sheet, make deep indentation in center of each cookie. Bake for 5 minutes, then quickly indent centers again, continue baking for 10 minutes.

  4. Fill center of each hot cookie with raspberry jam or jelly.

Recipe Yield

2 dozen

Recipe Note

Another old favorite of my mother's. A neighbour was making these when I was a child and I never got enough of them.

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