Heart Thumbprint Cookies
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These Heart Thumbprint Cookies are the most adoarable cookies for Valentine’s day. Little cookies have jelly in the heart-shaped center of the cookie.
Best of all, these are super easy to make and they taste fantastic. Soft shortbrad cookies are perfect with your coffee or tea.
These are the cutest cookies ever, and also nice for a Valentine’s tea.
Why You Will Love This Recipe
Easy Recipe. These heart thumbprints cookies are made with just a few simple ingredients, and adding the heart is so easy! These are also delicious cookies!
Fun and Festive Valentines day cookie recipe. These heart thumbprints are so cute and perfect for Valentine’s day. It is a fun twist on the traditional thumbprint cookie recipe.
Versatile. You can easily change these heart jam cookies up by using different flavors of jam thumbprints.
Heart Jam Cookies Ingredients
- all purpose flour
- powdered sugar
- butter
- egg
- vanilla
- cornstarch
- jam – My favorites are raspberry jam or strawberry jam
See recipe card for full recipe and quantities.
Equipment
- Large mixing bowl
- electric hand mixer or stand mixer
- cookie sheet
- parchment paper
- cooling rack
How to Make Heart Thumbprint Cookies
Step by step instructions
Step 1 – In a large bowl, mix ingredients, except for jam.
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Step 2 – Blend until dough forms, stirring with a rubber spatula.
Step 3 – Form cookie dough balls and place on prepared baking sheet.
Step 4 – Using a small spoon or your fingers, make an indent in the top of the cookie in the shape of a V.
Step 6 – Spoon jam in the little heart centers. Bake 12-15 minutes until light golden brown.
Let cool on a cooling rack.
These cookies are so festive and perfect as a Valentine’s Treat. For more easy Valentine’s Cookie ideas, try these Maraschino Cherry cookies or these Conversation Heart cookies.
Substitutions & Variations
- Jam – instead of raspberry preserves, you can use your favorite jam flavor. Strawberry or Cherry work great for Valentine’s day.
- Sugar – Sprinkle a little bit of powdered sugar on baked cookies if desired.
- Nuts – You can add finely chopped nuts. Roll balls in lightly beaten egg whites then in finely chopped walnuts, pecans or almonds before adding jam.
Storage
Store cookies in an airtight container.
Top Tips and Helpful Hints
- To make a need heart, uste the rounded back of a teaspoon to help form it.
- Seedless jam works best as some of the seeds make the jam a bit thick.
- For even rounded cookies, use a small cookie scoop.
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Heart Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
Equipment
- 1 Cookie sheet
- 1 stand mixer with paddle attachment or hand mixer
- 1 Parchment Paper
- 1 teaspoon
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter softened
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 vanilla extract
- 1 cup flour
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- ¾ cup strawberry puree
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl whip together softened butter and powdered sugar.
- Add egg and vanilla and whip wet ingredients until well incorporated.
- Add the dry ingredients (flour and cornstarch) to the bowl and fold in until incorporated, don’t over mix.
- Roll dough into 24, 1 inch balls. Place cookie balls on prepared baking sheet.
- Use your finger or spoon to press a heart shape into each dough ball in the middle of each cookie.
- Carefully spoon 1 teaspoon of jam or jelly into the heart shape.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly golden.
- Cool on a wire rack.
Notes
- To make a need heart, uste the rounded back of a teaspoon to help form it.
- Seedless jam works best as some of the seeds make the jam a bit thick.
- For even rounded cookies, use a small cookie scoop
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These look gorgeous. I’ve tried making some not long ago, but the hears never turn out so perfect. In the end I used the end of a wooden spoon lol 🙂
these are so very precious. I can imagine making a bunch up for someone special on valentines day thanks for sharing. come see us at http://shopannies.blogspot.com
Delicious, love thumbprint cookies, made some over Christmas, and these with the little red heart are so adorable.
Thanks so much for participating and sharing at SSPS 294. See you again next week!
LOVE that you made a heart from thumbprints, Raquel!
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Creatively, Beth