Prize-Winning Recipe 2010! Kissed with lemon and orange, sugar cookies get dressed up with fig preserves.
Citrus-Kissed Fig Thumbprints
- Prep Time 55 min
- Total 55 min
- Servings 48
- Ingredients 9
Ingredients
- 1 pouch (17.5 oz) Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix
- 3 tablespoons Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup fig preserves
- 1 teaspoon coarse sugar, if desired

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, stir cookie mix, flour, melted butter, lemon peel, orange peel, vanilla and egg until soft dough forms.
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Step2Roll dough into 1-inch balls; place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Using thumb or handle of wooden spoon, make indentation in center of each cookie. Spoon about 1/4 teaspoon preserves into each indentation.
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Step3Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. If desired, sprinkle with coarse sugar. Cool completely. Store tightly covered at room temperature.
Nutrition
70
Calories
3g
Total Fat
0g
Protein
10g
Total Carbohydrate
6g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 70
- Calories from Fat
- 25
- Total Fat
- 3g
- 5%
- Saturated Fat
- 1 1/2g
- 7%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 3%
- Sodium
- 45mg
- 2%
- Potassium
- 10mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 10g
- 3%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 6g
- Protein
- 0g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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