Description
Sweet raspberry swirls dance through creamy cheesecake thumbprint cookies, offering delicate pastry perfection. Crumbly cookie bases filled with tangy raspberry centers create irresistible dessert magic that will delight your senses.
Ingredients
Scale
Flour and Dry Ingredients:
- 1 cup plus 3 tablespoons (150g) all-purpose flour
Dairy and Fat Ingredients:
- 8 tablespoons (113g / ½ cup) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 4 ounces (113g) cream cheese, softened
Sweet and Flavor Ingredients:
- ½ cup (100g) granulated sugar
- ¼ cup (60g) raspberry preserves
Instructions
- Cream the softened cream cheese and butter in a spacious mixing vessel until ethereally smooth and airy, ensuring no lumps remain visible.
- Incorporate granulated sugar into the mixture, whisking vigorously until completely harmonized and achieving a silky consistency.
- Gently fold flour into the creamy base using minimal mixing motions, stopping precisely when ingredients are just integrated to maintain delicate texture.
- Encase the dough in plastic membrane and nestle in refrigerator for approximately 45 minutes, allowing ingredients to rest and solidify.
- Thirty minutes prior to baking, activate oven to 375F (190C) and drape parchment paper across baking sheet for optimal cookie release.
- Extract chilled dough and delicately form compact spheres using tablespoon measurements, positioning them with generous spacing across prepared surface.
- Craft gentle indentations into each cookie dome using thumb or rounded utensil edge, creating perfect reservoirs for fruity filling.
- Carefully spoon raspberry preserves into center wells, ensuring balanced distribution without overflowing.
- Slide tray into preheated oven, baking until cookie edges transform into pale golden hues, approximately 11-12 minutes.
- Remove from oven, allowing cookies to stabilize and firm on baking sheet for ten minutes before transferring to cooling rack for complete temperature reduction.
Notes
- Ensure cream cheese and butter are at room temperature for smoother, easier mixing and better cookie texture.
- Use a light hand when incorporating flour to prevent tough, dense cookies that lack delicate crumble.
- Chill dough thoroughly to prevent spreading and maintain the perfect thumbprint shape during baking.
- Experiment with different fruit preserves like strawberry, apricot, or blueberry for unique flavor variations that match personal preferences.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 24
- Calories: 135
- Sugar: 4.2g
- Sodium: 47mg
- Fat: 7.8g
- Saturated Fat: 4.8g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2.5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 16.1g
- Fiber: 0.3g
- Protein: 1.6g
- Cholesterol: 21mg