These thumbprint cookies taste just like your favorite strawberry pretzel salad! Soft Pillsbury™ sugar cookie dough, crunchy, salty pretzels, sweet strawberry jam and a tangy cream cheese drizzle combine to make a cookie that's truly irresistible any time of year.
More About This Recipe
- These cookies are a twist on traditional Layered Strawberry Pretzel Salad. Fans love it for its sweet-salty flavor and creamy, crunchy texture.
Strawberry-Pretzel Thumbprint Cookies
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 1 hr 40 min
- Ingredients 10
- Servings 38
Ingredients
Cookies
- 2 1/2 cups mini pretzel twists, coarsely crushed
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Sugar Cookie Dough
- 3 oz (from 8-oz package) cream cheese, softened
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup seedless strawberry jam, stirred
Cream Cheese Drizzle
- 2 oz (from 8-oz package) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons milk
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Line large cookie sheets with cooking parchment paper. In small bowl, mix crushed pretzels, granulated sugar and melted butter. Set aside.
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Step2In large bowl, break up cookie dough. Add 3 oz cream cheese and the flour; mix with spoon or hands until well blended. (DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH AFTER COMBINING WITH FLOUR.)
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Step3Shape dough into 38 (1 1/4-inch) balls. Roll into pretzel mixture, pressing slightly to stick. Place balls 2 inches apart on cookie sheets. Press thumb into center of each cookie to make indentation, but do not press all the way to the cookie sheet.
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Step4Bake 10 to 13 minutes or until edges are set and light golden brown. Immediately remake indentation in each cookie with back of teaspoon. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Spoon rounded 1/4 teaspoon jam into each indentation. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
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Step5In small bowl, beat Cream Cheese Drizzle ingredients with spoon until smooth. If necessary, add more milk, 1/2 teaspoon at a time, until thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle on tops of cookies.
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Nutrition
100
Calories
4g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
15g
Total Carbohydrate
8g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 100
- Calories from Fat
- 35
- Total Fat
- 4g
- 6%
- Saturated Fat
- 2g
- 10%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 3%
- Sodium
- 90mg
- 4%
- Potassium
- 15mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 15g
- 5%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 8g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 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
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