- Categories:1960s, Vintage advertisem*nts, Vintage Christmas, Vintage dessert recipes
- By The Click Americana Team
- Added or last updatedDecember 7, 2017
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Little glazed cakes for the holiday season
Icy Christmas cakes are little festive holiday cakes — like glazed cookies with a warm spiced flavor, plus a sweet burst from candied cherries. (This recipe suggests Brownulated Brown Sugar.)
Icy Christmas cakes
Cherry thumbprint Christmas cookies
Yield: 36 cookies
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Additional Time: 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hours 45 minutes
These rich and tender cherry thumbprint Christmas cookies have bright and colorful button centers, made by placing pretty halved red or green candied cherries into the middle of each one.
This recipe makes 36 small cookies, but you can easily double the ingredients and make more.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg white, slightly beaten
- 1/2 cup finely-chopped walnuts (or pecans)
- 1/2 cup red and green candied cherries, halved
Instructions
- Cream butter; add sugar and continue beating until blended.
- Separate one egg.
- Beat in egg yolk, vanilla, lemon juice and peels.
- Combine flour and salt; add to creamed mixture; blend well.
- Chill dough for 2 to 4 hours.
- Preheat oven to 300 F.
- Remove dough from refrigerator and shape into 1-inch balls.
- Dip balls in the slightly-beaten egg white, then in the chopped nuts.
- Place on buttered cookie sheets.
- Make a thumbprint in each dough ball, and place a red or green candied cherry half (curved side up) into the indentation at the top of each cookie.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
- Remove to wire rack to cool.
Notes
Candied cherries are not the same thing as maraschino cherries.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 36Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 63Total Fat: 3gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 9mgSodium: 45mgCarbohydrates: 10gFiber: 0gSugar: 6gProtein: 0g
Click Americana offers approximate nutrition information as a general reference only, and we make no warranties regarding its accuracy. Please make any necessary calculations based on the actual ingredients used in your recipe, and consult with a qualified healthcare professional if you have dietary concerns.
MORE:The yummiest, best-eating Christmas cookies ever (1966)
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- Categories: 1960s, Vintage advertisem*nts, Vintage Christmas, Vintage dessert recipes
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- Added or last updatedDecember 7, 2017
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