Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

ANYONE can bake these cookies, and I mean seriously anyone. There's literally 2 steps to making the cookie dough and 1 step to making the chocolate. It is that simple. And this will take you less than an hour to bake.

Anyway, thumbprint cookies are called that because you make an indent with your thumb and you can play around with whatever flava filling you like. You can also explore rolling the cookie dough with chopped nuts for added flava, but these chocolate cookies do not need any other extra flava, they are just yummy. And usually I'm very critical about my baked goods - I don't think that everything I bake is super yummy, and when someone else tells me it is I think they are just being polite. I lack baker's confidence. But that's a different story for another time.

These cookies however, I dare say they are very very yummy. I popped one lil cookies into my mouth and next thing you know I'm standing in the kitchen popping the next seven into my mouth. Someone needs to finish them before I do.

Here's what you'll need:

Dough:

- 1/2 cup unsalted butter

- 1/2 powdered sugar (sifted)

- 1/4 teaspoon salt

- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

- 1 1/4 cups flour (sifted)

Chocolate filling:

- 2 oz semi sweet chocolate (chopped)

- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter

- 1 teaspoon light corn syrup

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.

2. Cream the butter, sifted powdered sugar, salt and vanilla extract together.

3. Add the sifted flour gradually and beat until the dough forms.

4. Roll teaspoon-sized balls of dough onto the baking sheets and place them an inch apart.

5. Bake the dough balls for 10 mins and remove from the oven.

6. Instead of using my thumb, I used the back of a 1/4 teaspoon baking spoon to create the indent in the cookies.

7. Then return the cookies to the oven and bake for another 10 mins. Let the cookies cool while you prepare the chocolate filling.

8. Place the chocolate, butter and light corn syrup in a bowl and melt them in a microwave. Then let it cool.

9. Once the chocolate and cookies are cooled, fill the cookies' indentations with chocolate.

Although I am thankful that I have someone else in the house to share them with me so I don't end up eating all 30 of them, I secretly wish I didn't had to share. *evil laughter*