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# Thumbprint Cookies

Crumbly pale butter cookies pressed with a thumbprint, which I fill after baking with Nutella, chocolate spread, jam or dulce de leche.

## What you need

### Dough

- 3¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 7 oz cold butter (cubed)
- ½ cup canola oil
- ¾ cup powdered sugar

### Filling

- Nutella, chocolate spread, jam or dulce de leche

## How I make it

1. In a food processor with the steel blade, pulse the butter, flour and powdered sugar into crumbs. A mixer works too.
2. Add the oil and process until the dough comes together.
3. Preheat the oven to 320°F (160°C).
4. Roll the dough into balls a bit smaller than ping-pong balls and arrange on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
5. Press your thumb into each ball almost all the way down, without breaking through, to make a well for the filling.
6. Bake for about 10 minutes. The cookies should stay pale.
7. Let cool slightly and pipe or spoon the filling into the wells.

## What I've learned

- The dough cracks a little when you press in your thumb, and that's fine.
- The cookies firm up only after they come out of the oven, so I don't wait for them to brown.
- The well flattens a bit during baking; don't worry.

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