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Espresso Thumbprint Cookies

Betty Crocker Kitchens
Updated Sep 21, 2010
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Chocolate cookies topped with espresso filling make a delicious dessert - perfect to serve a bunch.

Espresso Thumbprint Cookies

  • Prep Time 60 min
  • Total 1 hr 15 min
  • Servings 42
  • Ingredients 12
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Ingredients

Cookies

  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 1 3/4 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
  • 3 tablespoons unsweetened baking cocoa
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • Crushed hard peppermint candies, if desired

Espresso Filling

  • 1/4 cup whipping cream
  • 2 teaspoons instant espresso coffee granules
  • 1 cup milk chocolate chips
  • 1 tablespoon coffee-flavored liqueur, if desired
Make With
Gold Medal Flour

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, beat sugar, butter, vanilla and egg with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon, until well blended. Stir in flour, cocoa and salt until dough forms.
  • Step 
    2
    Shape dough by rounded teaspoonfuls into 1-inch balls. On ungreased cookie sheets, place balls about 2 inches apart. Press thumb or end of wooden spoon into center of each cookie, but do not press all the way to cookie sheet.
  • Step 
    3
    Bake 7 to 11 minutes or until edges are firm. If necessary, quickly remake indentations with end of wooden spoon. Immediately remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
  • Step 
    4
    Meanwhile, in 1-quart saucepan, mix whipping cream and instant coffee. Heat over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until steaming and coffee is dissolved. Remove from heat; stir in chocolate chips until melted. Stir in liqueur. Cool about 10 minutes or until thickened.
  • Step 
    5
    Spoon rounded 1/2 teaspoon espresso filling into indentation in each cookie. Top with crushed candies.

Nutrition

90 Calories
5g Total Fat
1g Protein
10g Total Carbohydrate
6g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Cookie
Calories
90
Calories from Fat
45
Total Fat
5g
8%
Saturated Fat
3 1/2g
16%
Trans Fat
0g
Cholesterol
15mg
5%
Sodium
45mg
2%
Potassium
30mg
1%
Total Carbohydrate
10g
3%
Dietary Fiber
0g
0%
Sugars
6g
Protein
1g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
2%
2%
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
0%
0%
Iron
2%
2%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 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 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
1/2
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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