Dulce De Leche Snickerdoodle Thumbprint Cookies are a delicious and sweet treat for those who have a sweet tooth.
Dulce De Leche Snickerdoodle Thumbprint Cookies
Hello, my friends. Although I doubt that anyone will see this post (I do imagine you’re busy now. And I do understand you’d rather spend time with your family. So am I indeed – that’s why I am keeping this short and easy today), I’ve decided to share these Dulce De Leche Snickerdoodle Thumbprint Cookies with you.
First of all, we should remember that Santa’s coming to town ©. Even though I am not sure if I’m on Santa’s good or naughty list this year, I don’t want to take my chances. Thus, baking some extra cookies for this dude is obligatory. I believe Santa will appreciate these treats (When he recovers from a sugar coma, of course).
Secondly, these cookies are filled with dulce de leche. And you know me – I cannot properly end the year without a dulce de leche recipe. Besides, dulce de leche works so well with all these warming spices such as cinnamon and ginger, so I thought that would be a perfect marriage.
I also thought that coating the snickerdoodle cookies with demerara (or other “coarse”) kind of sugar will make the cookies look even more beautiful. That’s true – look at those sparkles! However, using this sugar quite affected the exterior; it was crispier than the ones traditional snickerdoodles have. Still lovely – but I love chewy exterior more. In fact, I coated ½ of the batch with the mixture of the regular granulated sugar (2/3) and demerara (1/3), and the result was so much better, in my opinion.
There’s on little thing you should be aware – this is an extremely sweet dessert. That’s not surprising, right? I believe you can add slightly less sugar in the dough. Also, I won’t recommend serving this with eggnog (And I hope you would not have thought of such option), but with a glass of milk or a cup of coffee or tea, this would be a very enjoyable experience.
So please make Dulce De Leche Snickerdoodle Thumbprint Cookies and leave (or don’t) a couple of Santa.
I will also post another recipe on Sunday or Monday, but in case you’re busy, let me wish you a beautiful holiday and lots of festive food (Remember that calories on December don’t count. We’ll argue about this with our scales in January.)
P.S. I also hope you’re on Santa’s good list.
Cheers.
Dulce De Leche Snickerdoodles Cookies
Ingredients
Dough:
- 2 and 2/3 cups pastry flour
- 1,5 tsp. baking powder (or the combination of 1 teaspoon of baking soda and 2 teaspoon of cream of tartar)
- a pinch of salt
- 2 sticks of unsalted butter, soften
- 1 cup granulate sugar
- 2 medium eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. cardamom
- 1/4 tsp. ginger
- 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
Additionally:
- Option #1: 1/2 cup demerara sugar (The exterior will be crispier and with less cracks)
- Option #2: 1/2 granulated sugar + 2-3 tbsp. demerara (The exterior will be soft and chewy)
- 1 tbsp. cinnamon
- 1 cup thick dulce de leche
Instructions
- Preheat oven to about 170 degrees C (370 F). If you are going to coat the cookies in the demerara sugar, I recommend 165 degrees C as the bottom of the cookies could start burning fast. Line baking sheets with parchment.
- Sift the flour, baking powder, spices, and salt in a bowl.
- Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer at high medium speed until light in color, about 3 minutes.
- Beat the eggs and vanilla. Continue beating at low speed.
- Gradually add the flour mixture, beating the dough until smooth.
- To make the spiced sugar, in a small bowl combine the sugar (or two kinds of sugar) with cinnamon. Using a tablespoon, scoop out some dough and roll into walnut size balls.
- Toss the balls in the spiced sugar to coat. Place them on the prepared sheets, 2-3 cm apart. Gently press your thumb or a small spoon into the center of each cookie. Bake for 5-6 minutes then remove from the oven: you will see that the thumbprints have balanced back.
- Working quickly, using the back of a small spoon, re-define the thumbprints. Bake for another 4-5 minutes at 170-175C or until the edges are set, crisp, and lightly browned.
- Remove from oven and cool completely.
- Fill with dulce de leche.
- Enjoy!
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These cookies look absolutely amazing! I love dulce de leche!
It seems only fitting that you wrap up the year with a good dulce de leche recipe post! I mean you’ve been making delicious dulce de leche creations all year, and we wouldn’t want Santa to miss out, right? These look amazing, and I do hope that Santa remembers to keep you on his list this year. I hope you are having a great holiday break so far, my friend! Merry Christmas!
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Good lord, what a combination for cookies! Love it! Happy Christmas!
Sparkly cookies with dulce de leche in the middle sounds pretty amazing! And I agree with Kelsie, if you leave these cookies for Santa, you are definitely on his nice list! Happy Holidays Ben!
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I’m sure you’re on the nice list, Ben! How could you not be!?
These cookies look mouthwatering! I love anything that’s dulce de leche, so you had my attention from the get go!
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When you make cookies like this, how could you not be on Santa’s nice list? These sound incredible, Ben! And if you really want to be on the nice list, you could send me a batch and I’ll shoot Santa an email about it :). Merry Christmas, Ben!