They always add that perfect touch of color to all my cookie platters and trays as well. They are so tasty that sometimes I pop the whole thing into my mouth as you can make them kind of tiny and almost bite sized!
Plus, I always loved the fairytale Thumbelina and these petite little cookies carry that name perfectly! They truly are so incredibly yummy. I make a couple other Dent cookies but these are definitely my favorite and one of the many baking traditions of the Christmas season!
THUMBELINA COOKIES
INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup white sugar
1 egg yolk, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
FROSTING
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 tsp vanilla
red and green food colorings
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350°. Cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla. Blend in the flour and salt. Shape into 1-inch balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Dent center of each ball. Bake for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven, dent center again, and bake for 8 to 10 minutes longer. Cool. For frosting, beat first 3 ingredients until fluffy. Divide frosting in half by placing in two different bowls. Tint each half, one with red food coloring and one with green food coloring to your desired color. Fill in dents with frosting.
Before frosting
My desired tints
So cute and delish!
Sorry, I did not post yesterday. I was in Chicago at a TV station and holiday luncheon with some blogging friends and will share more on Friday. Come back tomorrow for a sweet Style Six festive post and I hope you all have a fabulous day!
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These are just darling- thank you for sharing Andrea XO
ReplyDeleteThey look so tasty! I never think to fill thumbprints with frosting and you'd think that would be my go to ;-) I can't wait to give these a go.
ReplyDeleteYour cookies look so festive for Christmas! I wish I had one to go with my Diet Coke this morning! Hope you're back home and safe!!
ReplyDeleteThese look delicious and festive! I love that you use frosting instead of jam. I'm pinning!
ReplyDeleteJill - Doused in Pink
These look amazing! Pinning this. Loved meeting you yesterday. So fun and enjoy your cookware!
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These look delicious and pretty easy! I pinned to my Christmas board. Can't wait to hear about Chicago. :)
ReplyDeleteMissed seeing you over here yesterday but saw your IG stories and knew you were having the best time. Can't wait to hear all about it, Andrea! These cookies look delicious.
ReplyDeleteThese look so good and I love the story behind them! Your Chicago trip looked amazing!
ReplyDeleteYum.
ReplyDeleteThese are so festive!
ReplyDeleteYay- glad to see you back with Tasty Tuesday! These cookies are so cute and look well..tasty! Love the festive frosting and easy ingredients.
ReplyDeleteLook at these yummy little gems! So festive and sweet for the holidays!
ReplyDelete-Ashley
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These sound so good! Homemade cookies are one of my favorite things about this time of year!
ReplyDeleteYour cookies look so festive and I bet taste yummy. I can't wait to hear all about your outing!
ReplyDeleteOh yum!
ReplyDeleteLisa
That looks like a good cookie to icing ratio... DELISH!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat cute cookies! I love how festive they are with the red and green too! :)
ReplyDeleteHope that your week is off to a great start! Going to be a busy one here with lots of fun Christmas events :)
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I had to pin these. YUMMMM!!!!
ReplyDeleteI love cookie season, there are so many delicious cookies to try! Thank you so much for sharing your recipe with us at the Creative Muster Link Party. Looking forward to seeing what you share next week! Pinned
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas 🎄
Robin | Fluster Buster
These are just darling! I love that they are frosted, but it doesn't take a lot of extra time to decorate them! I just don't have time for the rolled out sugar cookies and I definitely don't have the talent! These are the perfect alternative!
ReplyDeleteWell, I will be making these next week and I'm also making your Bowtie Lasagne. These look delish! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeletelooks great. I've been slowly dipping my toes into baking this year but haven't had a ton of success so far #dreamteam
ReplyDeletethey look cute. Great to have you on the #DreamTeam with us and we hope to see you again,but would appreciate it if you could use our badge when you link up
ReplyDeleteLove the bright colours, they look very festive in time for Christmas! Thanks for linking up with #dreamteam
ReplyDeleteCame across your blog and made these cookies. I am not a good baker, usually, but these were simple and very tasty. The grands loved them, too. Thank you..PS..very cute blogger. :0)
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