Cherry Cheesecake Thumbprint Cookies #Christmas #Cookies

Butter cookie meets a piece of cheesecake on the tender Cherry Cheesecake thumbprint cookies are the perfect Christmas cake or cookie time!

Each year, we will make the cookies together to spritz Christmas cookie and thumbprint cookies.

Occasionally, we will make sugar cookies, too. People who have always disappeared first, though, it's a thumbprint cookies.

Cherry Cheesecake thumbprint cookies

Tender cheesecake thumbprint cookies filled with cherry pie filling

PREP TIME:

1 day

COOK TIME:

10 minutes

TOTAL TIME:

1 days 10 minutes

Course:

Desserts

Cuisine:

United States

KEYWORDS:

Cheesecake, cherry, cookie

Cherry Cheesecake thumbprint cookies

MATERIALS

• (113 g) 1/2 cup butter softened
• 8 ounces cream cheese softened
• 1 cup (198 g) granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 1/4 cup (270 g) plain flour 
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Graham cracker crumbs
• 21 ounce can cherry pie filling

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Line 2 cookie sheets with silicone baking mat or parchment paper.
2. In a large bowl, stir together butter, cream cheese, and sugar until smooth and well combined.
3. Beat in egg, scraping down the sides as needed.
4. Stir in the vanilla extract until incorporated.
5. In a separate medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.
6. Stir in flour mixture until just incorporated.
7. Cover and chill dough for at least 3 hours (up to 24 hours). Cookies will hold its shape better if you chill the dough for 8-24 hours.
8. Towards the end of a terrible time, preheat the oven to 350 f.
9. Spoon the dough using a spoon cake medium (1 ½ tablespoons).
10. Roll in crumbs, crackers and place on the prepared baking sheet.
11. Bake for 8-12 minutes. You want the edges become just barely browned.
12. Remove from the oven, and immediately pressing 1/2 tablespoon measuring spoon to make indentation in each cookie.
13. Fill the indentation with a fruit filling.
14. Let it cool for 5-10 minutes on cookie sheet.
15. Transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
16. Store leftover pie in refrigerator.