THUMBELINA COOKIES

These precious Thumbelina cookies go way way back! I have fun memories of my mom and spooning the colored frosting into the little dents of the buttery and tasty cookies! Tasty Tuesday at it's best with cookies!


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!

25 comments:

  1. These are just darling- thank you for sharing Andrea XO

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  2. They 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.

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  3. Your 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!!

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  4. These look delicious and festive! I love that you use frosting instead of jam. I'm pinning!

    Jill - Doused in Pink

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  5. These look amazing! Pinning this. Loved meeting you yesterday. So fun and enjoy your cookware!

    https://www.kathrineeldridge.com

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  6. These look delicious and pretty easy! I pinned to my Christmas board. Can't wait to hear about Chicago. :)

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  7. Missed 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.

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  8. These look so good and I love the story behind them! Your Chicago trip looked amazing!

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  9. Yay- glad to see you back with Tasty Tuesday! These cookies are so cute and look well..tasty! Love the festive frosting and easy ingredients.

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  10. Look at these yummy little gems! So festive and sweet for the holidays!

    -Ashley
    Le Stylo Rouge

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  11. These sound so good! Homemade cookies are one of my favorite things about this time of year!

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  12. Your cookies look so festive and I bet taste yummy. I can't wait to hear all about your outing!

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  13. That looks like a good cookie to icing ratio... DELISH!!!!

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  14. What cute cookies! I love how festive they are with the red and green too! :)

    Hope that your week is off to a great start! Going to be a busy one here with lots of fun Christmas events :)

    Away From Blue | Handbag Gift Guide

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  15. I had to pin these. YUMMMM!!!!

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  16. I 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

    Merry Christmas 🎄
    Robin | Fluster Buster

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  17. 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!

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  18. Well, I will be making these next week and I'm also making your Bowtie Lasagne. These look delish! Thanks for sharing!

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  19. looks great. I've been slowly dipping my toes into baking this year but haven't had a ton of success so far #dreamteam

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  20. they 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

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  21. Love the bright colours, they look very festive in time for Christmas! Thanks for linking up with #dreamteam

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  22. Came 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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