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    Home » Recipes » Desserts

    Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

    Published: Dec 20, 2017 · Modified: Apr 14, 2023 by Daniela Modesto - This post may contain affiliate links.

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    It was December. It had been nearly 2 months since I first stepped foot in the US. The house smelled sweet...of chocolate, no cookies. Both. Curious to see what it was, I walked downstairs, timidly passing several members of my new family.

    It was odd being in that space. A large, red brick house in a tiny town that held no memories and felt nothing like home. Yes, it's true, I had my own room, which I never envisioned could be possible, but it was foreign. The whole thing felt like a strange dream from which I was sure to wake up any minute. By that point, I had 2 months to process the fact that I wasn't in Romania anymore. I had experience leaving home the first time we moved to Germany but it was nothing like this. My father still in Europe, my mom, brother and me living with my new step-family. 

    By this point I'd acquired a very basic vocabulary and could say the typical pleasantries such as "hi, how are you today?" and "school was good". I hadn't the courage or words available to ask what the smell was. I had to patiently wait until they came out of the oven. Round, chocolatey with a shiny red center. Unusual cookies to my foreign eyes. Then I tried one...

    I'd learned that day that that it was customary to make cookies around Christmas time. Though I have few pleasant memories from that first Christmas, that one stuck with me. Those cookies were one of the best things I'd ever eaten. The taste confused me. Chocolate and raspberry together? It was a peculiar combination to me at the time. 

    For years I had no idea what they were called. I craved them and wanted them but there is just no way to find out what something is when you don't even have a name for it. However sometime around the 2000s when Google was born, I was able to slowly piece together that which I thought I'd never find. The name of these cookies. 

    To this day I wonder, is it the name? The strange memories associated with them or is it the fact that they were this elusive mystery which I couldn't solve for years that drew me to them. 

    As I no longer eat the majority of ingredients that go into making traditional thumbprint cookies, I've had to come up with alternatives. So I give you my version of grain free, gluten free and dairy free thumbprint cookies. 


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    chocolate thumbprint cookies

    • prep time: 10 minutes

    • baking time: 10 minutes

    • makes: 25-30 cookies

    Ingredients: 

    • 1 cup coconut flour

    • ½ cup melted coconut oil

    • 2 teaspoon vanilla extract

    • ½ cup chocolate chips

    • ½ teaspoon baking soda

    • ¼ teaspoon baking powder

    • ¼ cup maple syrup

    • ¼ teaspoon salt

    • ¼ cup dutched cocoa

    • 4 room temperature eggs

    • 2-3 tablespoon raspberry preserves

    Equipment: 

    • 2 baking sheets

    • parchment paper

    • large mixing bowl

    • small mixing bowl

    • whisk

    Directions: 

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine all ingredients in mixing bowl. Whisk until everything is fully incorporated. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. 

    Next take a small amount of dough and form into a 1" ball. Place on parchment paper lined sheet and press your thumb in the center to create a little indent. Repeat until all the dough is gone. 

    Place roughly ¼ teaspoon of raspberry jam into thumb print. Bake the first tray on middle rack for 10 minutes. Repeat with the second batch. 

    Cool completely and store in an air-tight container. 

    * I highly recommend using dutched chocolate otherwise your cookies will end up with a cake like consistency. 

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    chocolate thumbprint cookies
    by Daniela Modesto December-20-2017
    Ingredients
    • 1 cup coconut flour
    • ½ cup melted coconut oil
    • ½ cup choclate chips (melted in micro for 1 minute)
    • 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • ½ teaspoon baking soda
    • ¼ teaspoon baking powder
    • ¼ cup maple syrup
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • ¼ cup dutched cocoa
    • 4 room temperature eggs
    • 2-3 tablespoon raspberry preserves
    Instructions
    1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine all ingredients in mixing bowl. Whisk until everything is fully incorporated. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
    2. Next take a small amount of dough and form into a 1" ball. Place on parchment paper lined sheet and press your thumb in the center to create a little indent. Repeat until all the dough is gone. 3. Place roughly ¼ teaspoon of raspberry jam into thumb print. Bake the first tray on middle rack for 10 minutes. Repeat with the second batch. 4. Cool completely and store in an air-tight container. 
    Details

    Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 10 mins Total time: 20 mins Yield: 25-30

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