Thumbprint Cookies

You can make the basic recipe and use it to make other cookie variations. 1 pkg. (8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened 3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter, softened 1 cup sugar 2 tsp. vanilla 2-1/4 cups flour 1/2 tsp. baking soda try rolling and cutting shaped cookies either sprinkle with colored sugar or your favorite jello (dry) before baking or top with icing after baking Sometimes I don't have time to roll them out and cut them, so I roll them in my hand and press them into cookie size and bake. I first found this recipe in the kraft foods magazine shortly after my son was diagnosed with an egg allergy. My family requests I make cookies at every family dinner. I often double the recipe and store in the refridgerater so I can bake a few for my two year old when the rest of us are having something he can't have. I wonder why the kraft-web managers don't set a link to the other recipes you can make with the basic recipe. Search for 4-in-1 cookie dough.

i love this recipe! i'm not a great cook, actually i'm just slowly starting to bake and cook, and even i had great results with these! i bake them for my dad who's very picky and he loved them! i used walnuts instead and maked tiny dots to avoid the fact that the dough under the jam wasn't cooking right. I also used no sugar added jam and they were SO yummy!

That is the best Thumbprint Cookies recipe I made. Thank You

these were pretty good overall but the dough under the jam was not cooked at all its better if you bake the cookies till there done and then fill them w/ jam

Very easy to make. Wonderful taste, very moist for thumbprint cookies. Made some ccokies with apricot preserves instead of raspberry and they were good also. They have become a new family favorite.

This recipie will become a traditional cookie for my family. These cookies were simple to make and turned out delicious. So many family and friends request these cookies now I have to make extra batches.

I have made thumprint cookies before, but not this particular recipe with cream cheese. They could barely cool before my husband attacked them. He's the cookie critic, and the expression on his face (and mouth) said it all. I used a little less preserve in each as they're small.

These cookies were so easy and delicious. I rolled mine in pecans instead of mixing them in. I also made a sugar-free version for my diabetic father by substituting 3/4 cup Splenda and using sugar-free jam. He loved them, and said he couldn't tell the difference. Excellent recipe.

I filled these cookies with blueberry jam, and they were delicious! I did add an extra touch at the end, though. After the cookies were completely cool, I drizzled them with a basic cream cheese frosting. Yummy!

Wonderful cookies! Everyone loved them..recommend, which is saying alot I am not a sweets person. :)