Peanut Butter and Jelly Thumbprints for Big Little Kids

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Today is Tuesday, and time for a treat with my weekly baking club, Tuesdays with Dorie. Our assignment today was Thumprints for Grown ups, but what fun would that be for my little charges? They wouldn't have appreciated a sophisticated cookie, loaded with ground hazelnuts. Luckily, Dorie has a thumprint cookie especially for kids. Perfect! It's a delicate peanut butter cookie-rolled in peanuts (or not, for my charges), and bejeweled with a dab of strawberry jam. They're supposed to be for kids, but I think the grown ups enjoyed them at least equally well. We adored them! They're on my new top ten list of cookies, the list that exists only in my head, but that I fully plan to include on my blog someday. But for today, this is enough.

Kids' Thumprints, slightly adpated from Dorie Greenspan

Estimated Cost: $2.00 for 30

6 tablespoons butter

1/4 cup peanut butter

2 tablespoons sugar

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 egg, separated

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup flour
3/4 cup chopped salted peanuts

1/2 cup jam

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a medium bowl, cream butter and peanut butter. Add sugars and egg yolk. Stir in vanilla. Add flour and stir to form soft dough. Roll cookies into small balls. Dip balls into egg white and roll in peanuts, if desired. (I skipped this step on some.) Poke a hole in the center of the cookie with the spoon handle. (The hole will expand in the oven.) Bake cookies for about 15-18 minutes, or until just beginning to color. Cool completely. Heat jam in microwave safe bowl. Spoon jam into cookies. Makes about 30.
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