Chocolate Sprinkle Thumbprint Cookies

These delicious, soft, chewy Chocolate Sprinkle Thumbprint Cookies are effortless to make, and they will be the little gems on your afternoon tea table or even in your Christmas cookie box.

About This Recipe

• These delicious Chocolate Sprinkle Thumbprint Cookies come together in no time, and no long chilling time is required.
• These cookies have a very chewy and soft texture, with the decadent kiss blossom in the center.
• This recipe calls for simple and non-fancy ingredients. Ingredients include flour, sugar, cocoa powder, butter, egg, and leavenings.
• As a rule of thumb, always add vanilla extract and a small amount of almond extract when making sugar cookies. Almond extract has a subtle taste, making the cookies taste bakery-style.
• These cookies have a unique look because they roll in colorful nonpareils sprinkles. You can use red, green, and white sprinkles if you are baking for Christmas. I used rainbow color sprinkles, but any other color will be fine. The possibilities are endless.

How To Make The Chocolate Sprinkle Thumbprint Cookies

• Just like any other sugar cookie recipe, we start by creaming the butter and sugar. This step is essential because it helps the sugar dissolve with butter and, breaks down the butter pieces, and aerates the batter.
• Next, add in the eggs and both extracts. Beating the batter after adding the eggs is also very important. Eggs need to incorporate fully into the batter to make the bonding among the other ingredients.
• This Chocolate Sprinkle Thumbprint Cookie recipe calls for ¼ cup of cocoa powder. Sift the cocoa powder with the flour and other dry ingredients. This brings air to the batter and removes any lump from the cocoa powder.
• Switch to a rubbing spatula, add the dry ingredients to the batter, and gently fold.

• Use an ice cream scoop or your hands and make balls the size of a small tangerine. Place them on a lined baking sheet and chill them for 10 minutes. Yes! Only 10 minutes.
• Bring them out of the fridge and roll them in the nonpareils sprinkles; if the sprinkles are not sticking to the cookie balls, no worries! Hold the cookie balls in your palms for a few seconds, then roll them in the sprinkles.
• Place them back on the baking sheet and bake them for 9 minutes, then bring them out and push a Hershey kiss chocolate in the center of the cookies; put them back into the oven, and bake for another minute to slightly melt the chocolate kiss. Let them cool down.

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