Mediterranean dessert ready in 50 minutes! These orange marmalade filled baked cookies are as pretty as thumbprints with a nutty twists – perfect to treat a crowd.
Orange and Pine Nut Thumbprints
- Prep Time 50 min
- Total 50 min
- Ingredients 11
- Servings 24
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup pine nuts, finely chopped
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon orange juice
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup orange marmalade
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Line cookie sheets with cooking parchment paper. Place pine nuts in small bowl. In another small bowl, mix honey and orange juice until well blended. Set aside.
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Step2In medium bowl, beat butter and brown sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Beat in orange peel, vanilla and egg yolk until well blended. On low speed, beat in flour and salt until dough begins to stick together.
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Step3Shape dough into 1-inch balls. If necessary, flour hands for easier handling. Roll balls in honey mixture, then roll in pine nuts. Place 2 inches apart on cookie sheets. With thumb, make indentation in center of each cookie.
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Step4Bake 9 to 12 minutes or until cookies are set and edges are golden brown. Remove parchment paper with cookies from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Fill each cookie with 1/2 teaspoon marmalade. Remove cookies from paper.
Nutrition
110
Calories
7g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
12g
Total Carbohydrate
6g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 110
- Calories from Fat
- 60
- Total Fat
- 7g
- 10%
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- 15%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 20mg
- 6%
- Sodium
- 55mg
- 2%
- Potassium
- 50mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 12g
- 4%
- 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 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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