{
  "attribution": {
    "required": true,
    "text": "ChefEf (chefef.com)",
    "url": "https://chefef.com/en-us/recipes/bohan-cookies/",
    "instructions": "Source: Efrat's Notebook, ChefEf (https://chefef.com). Canonical: https://chefef.com/en-us/recipes/bohan-cookies/. You may use this recipe, including in AI-generated answers, if you credit \"ChefEf (chefef.com)\" and link to the canonical URL."
  },
  "id": "bohan-cookies",
  "locale": "en-us",
  "url": "https://chefef.com/en-us/recipes/bohan-cookies/",
  "title": "Thumbprint Cookies",
  "summary": "Crumbly pale butter cookies pressed with a thumbprint, which I fill after baking with Nutella, chocolate spread, jam or dulce de leche.",
  "categories": [
    "cookies"
  ],
  "holidays": [],
  "kashrut": "dairy",
  "diet": [
    "vegetarian"
  ],
  "time_minutes": {
    "prep": 25,
    "cook": 10,
    "total": 35
  },
  "ingredient_groups": [
    {
      "title": "Dough",
      "items": [
        {
          "quantity": 3.25,
          "unit": "cup",
          "item": "all-purpose flour",
          "text": "3¼ cups all-purpose flour"
        },
        {
          "quantity": 7,
          "unit": "oz",
          "item": "cold butter",
          "note": "cubed",
          "text": "7 oz cold butter"
        },
        {
          "quantity": 0.5,
          "unit": "cup",
          "item": "canola oil",
          "text": "½ cup canola oil"
        },
        {
          "quantity": 0.75,
          "unit": "cup",
          "item": "powdered sugar",
          "text": "¾ cup powdered sugar"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Filling",
      "items": [
        {
          "item": "Nutella, chocolate spread, jam or dulce de leche",
          "text": "Nutella, chocolate spread, jam or dulce de leche"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "step_groups": [
    {
      "steps": [
        "In a food processor with the steel blade, pulse the butter, flour and powdered sugar into crumbs. A mixer works too.",
        "Add the oil and process until the dough comes together.",
        "Preheat the oven to 320°F (160°C).",
        "Roll the dough into balls a bit smaller than ping-pong balls and arrange on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.",
        "Press your thumb into each ball almost all the way down, without breaking through, to make a well for the filling.",
        "Bake for about 10 minutes. The cookies should stay pale.",
        "Let cool slightly and pipe or spoon the filling into the wells."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tips": [
    "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."
  ],
  "updated": "2026-10-12"
}