Gingerbread Thumbprint Cookies with Cranberry Sauce
Spiced gingerbread cookies with a tangy cranberry center and a sweet white chocolate drizzle make these thumbprints stand out on any holiday tray. They’re festive, pretty, and surprisingly easy to whip up. One bite and you’ll see why they’re always the first to disappear at cookie swaps.
Servings 24
Ingredients
- ½ Cup Butter unsalted
- ½ Cup Sugar
- ½ Cup Molasses
- 1 Egg
- ½ teaspoon Ginger
- ½ teaspoon Cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
- 3⅓ Cups Flour
- ¾ Cup Cranberry Sauce canned
- ¾ Cup White Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar with a hand mixer until creamy.
- Add the molasses and egg and beat again until combined.
- Add the ginger, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and 1 cup of flour. Beat until completed combined and you can no longer see the flour.
- Add the next cup of flour and mix together. Slowly add the flour until it's gone.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it sit in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- About 10 minutes before removing the dough from the fridge, preheat the oven to 350℉ and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Remove the dough from fridge and roll the dough into 1½ inch balls. Set on the lined cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
- Make a small even well in the middle of each dough ball using your thumb.
- Add the cranberry sauce to a bowl and stir until it's no longer solid.
- Add a small amount of cranberry sauce to each thumbprint well just until it fills the hole. Do not overfill.
- Bake at 350℉ for 12-13 minutes.
- Let the cookies cool on the cookie sheet for 10 minutes.
- Melt the white chocolate chips in the microwave and add to a zip top bag. Cut the tip off of one corner of the bag and drizzle the white chocolate on top of the cookies.
- Let the cookies cool on a cooling rack.
Notes
Helpful Tips
Roll the dough balls evenly so they bake at the same rate.
Use a thick cranberry sauce so it stays put in the center. If yours is runny, cook it down a little first.
Melt white chocolate slowly in the microwave, stirring often, to avoid scorching.
Let the cookies cool before drizzling the white chocolate so it doesn’t melt and slide off.
Let the drizzle harden before stacking or packing the cookies.