In The Kitchen With Kat-PB&J Thumbprint Cookies

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Last week we were blessed with a surplus of grapes, concord grapes to be exact. So the hubs and I set about doing the whole preservation thing, he made wine and I made jelly.

Well, there was a cup of jelly sitting in my fridge after all the canners cooled and air locks ceased bubbling, and my brain did that thing it always does when I have something laying about that usually isn't present, I wonder if?

This time the wonder was more of a I should. It has been scads of years since I made thumbprint cookies, partially because I don't have little ones running amok anymore. Thumbprint cookies are so much fun to make with the under ten set. They love smashing their thumbs into pretty much anything, from cookie dough to mud to manure....sigh...

Anyway, when I saw that bit of grape jelly in the fridge, I just knew I had to whip up a batch of PB&J thumbprints. Because even though I don't have small fries about the farm these days, I do have a passel of teenagers lurking about who will eat just about anything!

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So, I got out a mixing bowl and sifted some flour, baking powder, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt together. Amazingly, I didn't get any of the dry ingredients on me, what a kitchen miracle that was!

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Next, I placed the butter, peanut butter, and sugar in my stand mixing bowl and beat the stuff until it was well creamed together. A couple eggs, some vanilla and almond extracts found their way into the bowl, and after incorporating those ingredients I folded in the dry mix.

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And wonder of wonders, I still wasn't wearing any of the stuff!

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Before I started mixing my dough, I had preheated the oven to 375 Fahrenheit and lined my giant cookie sheet with some parchment paper.

I really should own stock in a parchment paper manufacturing company...

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Lost investment opportunities aside, I then began rolling out tablespoons of dough into nice little balls and placed them onto my prepared cookie sheet. Still quite in awe that things were progressing non-messily, I then moved on to the fun part, I poked holes in each ball of dough with my thumb.

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Now, for the fair in constitution among us, you could also use a wooden spoon handle should you wish to not sully your digits with greasy peanut butter cookie dough, but as I am an uncultured heathen, I had no qualms about diving in and thumbprinting the heck out of that dough.

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Then, I took a teaspoon and placed a bit of grape jelly into each depression in the dough that I had created. It looked so pretty!

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And I was still CLEAN AND TIDY! Good lords!

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These cookies bake pretty fast, like 7-9 minutes. I went the full 9 minutes on my baking time, as that was when the cookies just started to brown on the edges.

Another important thing to note is to not to get to hasty about removing them to the cooling rack, they need to just chill for about five minutes on the tray before removing to the cooling rack, well, unless you like broken cookies or want to make a cookie mosaic or something.

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After fully cooling the thumbprints, I gave one to my daughter who was tapping away on her Chromebook doing her homework. She occasionally grumbled and yelled at the screen, so I thought a mood restorative was in order. The only sound she made after I gave her a cookie was, mmmmm, yum.

So I think it's safe to say this recipe is at least edible.😉

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PB&J Thumbprint Cookies

2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cornstarch
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup creamy peanut butter
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp almond extract
1 cup grape jelly

Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

In a mixing bowl, sift together (or whisk) flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cornstarch.

In a separate mixing bowl, cream together butter, peanut butter, and sugar. Beat in eggs and extracts.

Mix in dry ingredients until just blended. Do not over mix.

Roll Tablespoon sized balls of dough and place on cookie sheet at least two inches apart.

Press holes in the middle of each ball of dough with your thumb or wooden spoon handle and fill with grape jelly.

Bake 7-9 minutes or until cookie edges just start to brown. Remove from oven and cool cookies on the sheet for at least five minutes before removing to wire rack to fully cool.

This recipe makes 3 dozen cookies to enjoy!


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And as most of the time, all of the images in this post were taken on the author's miraculously peanut butter and jelly free iPhone.

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I will have to try making these (or, more likely, a variation) at some point. So far, every jam thumbprint recipe I have tried has been a disaster.

BTW, I don't know about you, but I find flour to be the messiest ingredient of them all.

Um, if you ever would like to share one of those disasters in a post I would be beyond intrigued! As much as I hate it when my baking and cooking goes wrong, sometimes I really love commiserating with others when it happens to them.

But seriously, someone who is as meticulous as you are (model maker extraordinaire!), I hardly believe you have had a complete thumbprint disaster!

And yes, flour is the meanest ingredient, with powdered sugar right up there in the running lol!

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Well, to be perfectly honest, I've seen plenty of recipes written by people who clearly had no idea what they're doing, but while I'm quite experienced at cooking meats, vegetables, and soup to know what works and what doesn't (especially when it comes to spice combinations), I'm still a novice at baking. The last time I tried a thumbprint recipe, the cookies flattened out and ran into each other, completely filling up the cookie sheet except for the holes where the jam went, which burned onto the sheet and required an inordinate amount of elbow grease to clean up.

I HATE IT WHEN COOKIES BLEED AND RUN!

Sorry, had to yell a bit there, it makes me crazy because I hate waste (and the mess!)lol!

And yes, baking is a bit less forgiving that cooking. It's really an art to get a dough incorporated so it won't run yet not overmix it so the resulting baked good won't be tough. A lot of the time if I am making any cookie with butter in it, I will chill it at least an hour before, as it lends a better structure to the finished product.

Of course, I really don't know what I am doing, I just have had a lot of practice at getting the results that I want 😉

And I am a huge proponent of parchment paper, I also despise scrubbing cookie sheets lol. That said, I hope if you make these that they turn out for you, it sounds like you deserve some non-runny cookies of tastiness😊

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Well, I had to go and make these today because reasons. I think I made them a little small, I got four dozen instead of three. I don't keep any almond extract or grape jelly in the house, so I just added an extra 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla, and filled them with raspberry and strawberry jam. Two dozen got raspberry, one got strawberry, and one (which I gave to my neighbour) got chocolate chips in the centre. I also turned the temperature down to 350, because some from the first batch were black on the bottom (still edible, though).

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You made them! And they look yummy! I love raspberry jam, especially with chocolate as an addition!

Isn't it crazy how ovens and baking sheets and humidity all vary so much? Like, I can totally see that your cookies spread a bit more than mine, and I am wondering what your humidity is in your part of the world? I think I would almost always chill my cookie dough for at least 30 mins in the freezer or an hour in the fridge before baking if I had that happening.

I'm just glad they were edible for you, none are left here lol!

And sorry I am slow to reply, I watched my friend's three year old boy all weekend so they could get away for their anniversary, I'm gonna go take a nap now...

Just fresh and sweet by its making..

That was the nicest sentence ever! Thank you!

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aww, thank you!!

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This looks amazing. I will give it a try over the weekend.

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Thanks so much! I hope you like them as much as we all did!

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I looooove this. I'm so trying it out this weekend. Thanks a bunch for the recipe😋

Aww, thank you so much for the super sweet comment! I hope that they turn out gloriously for you😊

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Oddly enough, I don't think I've ever made thumbprint cookies! Maybe next time the 7-yr-old granddaughter visits, I should correct that error.