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Welcome to #SpringSweetsWeek, day 2! I hope you are having fun checking out all the tasty recipes so far! Have you entered the giveaway yet? Don’t forget! You can enter towards the end of this page! Today I made these Bird’s Nest Thumbprint Cookies. They are fun to make, and if you have any helpers, this is the cookie recipe for them. There are chocolate eggs to go on the tops of the cookies, and if your helpers are not too young, they might want to try piping the grass and the birds nest. These cookies are good practice and this recipe is very versatile. I have used it several times for different types of thumbprint fillings. This is also one of those recipes I just love because not everything has to be done at one time, or the same time. You can make this recipe a day or two ahead of the decorating. Then finish the frosting closer to the day you want the cookies ready! Plus, this recipe is really yummy!
Bird’s Nest Thumbprint Cookies
(Makes 7 dozen)
(printable recipe at end of page)
1 cup Butter
1 cup Dixie Crystals Powdered Sugar
1 cup Dixie Crystals Granulated Sugar
2 large Eggs
1 teaspoon Vegetable Oil
2 teaspoons Vanilla
2 tablespoons Lemon Juice
5 1/4 cup Flour
1 teaspoon Cream of Tartar
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/4 teaspoon Salt
Frosting
Wilton Color Kelly Green
Americolor Chocolate Brown
Wilton Tip #233
Mini Chocolate Eggs
Frosting Recipe:
3/4 cup Warm Water
5 tablespoons Meringue Powder
1 teaspoons Cream of Tartar
2.25 pounds Dixie Crystals Powdered Sugar
Mix the butter on medium until fluffy. Add powdered sugar and granulated sugar and mix again. Add your eggs, oil, vanilla, and lemon juice. Beat until blended.
In a separate bowl, mix together your flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt. Then add that to the mixing bowl with the sugar ingredients.
Use a small scoop and place scoops of batter on to a cookie sheet.
Roll each ball around in your hand making them smooth. Bake for 9-11 minutes. Remove from oven.
Immediately use something that will compress the middle of the cookie, giving it an edge. I used a pestle. I sprayed the pestle with cooking spray so it would not stick to the cookies.
I like making the cookie indentation immediately after the cookies have baked. It gives a cleaner look, with less cracked cookie sides. These cookies will not brown, but they may become slightly brown on the bottom. When they do, they are done. Place on cooling rack to cool.
Make the frosting by mixing together the warm water and meringue powder. Whisk it by hand for 30 seconds. Add the cream of tartar and whisk 30 seconds more. Use a mixer with a paddle attachment, add the sugar and mix for 15 minutes on low speed. The icing will become creamy and thick. Mix 1/2 cup of the frosting green and another 1/2 cup colored brown. You will have a lot of frosting left for future recipes.
Use a Wilton tip 233 to place green tufts of grass around the inside edges of the cookies.
Use the same tip again, only with a decorating bag filled with brown frosting. Pipe a circle around the top of the cookie, making it look similar to a birds nest.
Place the eggs on the tops of the cookies. Enjoy!
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Yield: 7 DozenAuthor: The Freshman CookPrint Recipe
BIRD’S NEST THUMBPRINT COOKIES
INGREDIENTS:
Cookies
- 1 cup Butter
- 1 cup Dixie Crystals Powdered Sugar
- 1 cup Dixie Crystals Granulated Sugar
- 2 large Eggs
- 1 teaspoon Vegetable Oil
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla
- 2 tablespoons Lemon Juice
- 5 1/4 cup Flour
- 1 teaspoon Cream of Tartar
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- Frosting
- Mini Chocolate Eggs
Frosting
- 3/4 cup Warm Water
- 5 tablespoons Meringue Powder
- 1 teaspoons Cream of Tartar
- 2.25 pounds Powdered Sugar
- Wilton Color Kelly Green
- Americolor Chocolate Brown
- Wilton Tip #233
INSTRUCTIONS:
Cookies
- Mix the butter on medium until fluffy. Add powdered sugar and granulated sugar and mix again. Add your eggs, oil, vanilla, and lemon juice. Beat until blended.
- In a separate bowl, mix together your flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt. Then add that to the mixing bowl with the sugar ingredients.
- Use a small scoop and place scoops of batter on to a cookie sheet.
- Roll each ball around in your hand making them smooth. Bake for 9-11 minutes. Remove from oven.
- Immediately use something that will compress the middle of the cookie, giving it an edge. I used a pestle. I sprayed the pestle with cooking spray so it would not stick to the cookies.
- I like making the cookie indentation immediately after the cookies have baked. It gives a cleaner look, with less cracked cookie sides. These cookies will not brown, but they may become slightly brown on the bottom. When they do, they are done. Place on cooling rack to cool.
- Make the frosting by mixing together the warm water and meringue powder. Whisk it by hand for 30 seconds. Add the cream of tartar and whisk 30 seconds more. Use a mixer with a paddle attachment, add the sugar and mix for 15 minutes on low speed. The icing will become creamy and thick. Mix 1/2 cup of the frosting green and another 1/2 cup colored brown. You will have a lot of frosting left for future recipes.
- Use a Wilton tip 233 to place green tufts of grass around the inside edges of the cookies.
- Use the same tip again, only with a decorating bag filled with brown frosting. Pipe a circle around the top of the cookie, making it look similar to a birds nest.
- Place the eggs on the tops of the cookies. Enjoy!
