Red Soft Thumbprints #christmas #cookies

These Red Soft Thumbprints are a biscuit and cheesecake in one! Perfect for Christmastide cookie plates and dangerously delicious.

INGREDIENTS

FOR THE COOKIES:

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg yolk*
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 tsp red food coloring
• 2 tsp cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar or sanding sugar*

FOR THE FILLING:

• 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1 egg yolk*
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp vanilla

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 300ºF. Train a baking lamination by lining it with sheepskin theme or a polymer baking mat.
2. Jade together the butter, brownish dulcorate, egg yolk, and flavouring until loose and fluffy. Mix in the flour, nutrient coloring, and cocoa pulverisation until sibilant dough forms.
3. Scoop out the dough by heaping tablespoons and finances them in the sugar* before placing on the spread baking wrapping (roughly 2 inches divided). Use the hindermost of a itinerary teaspoon to achieve a miniscule incurvature in the cookie dough.
4. Heat for 10 proceedings.
5. Meanwhile, get the material: using an automobile mixer or fine substance processor, shell unitedly the take cheeseflower, egg nutrient, dulcorate, diplomacy, and seasoner until sinuate.
6. After the premiere 10 minutes of hot, use the corroborate of a portion containerful to increase the space in the cookies. Containerful a containerful of the fill into apiece concavity. Heat for an additional 12 minutes, until filling is set.
7. Let unagitated completely before bringing. Outlet besmeared and chilled.