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Home » Dessert » Cookies » Thumbprint Cookies with Candy Cane Kisses

Thumbprint Cookies with Candy Cane Kisses

Created: December 7, 2018 Updated: August 27, 2020 by Lyuba Brooke 7 Comments

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Delicious holiday Thumbprint Cookies made with Hershey’s Candy Cane Kisses. These little shortbread cookies are soft, buttery, and have a little peppermint bonus in the middle. These cookies are little drops of heaven while still warm and chocolate is still gooey.

Thumbprint Cookies with Candy Cane Kisses on a wood cutting table

Thumbprint Cookies

Original Thumbprint Cookies made with jam in the center and they are a classic Christmas cookie. These cookies originated in Sweden but quickly became holiday staples here, in US.

When making classic thumbprint cookies, you would make a small dip or a well in the cookie dough, fill the well with some jam, and bake them. These cookies are soft, buttery, and just heavenly with a little touch of sweet jam.

Every year, I make a holiday version of thumbprint cookies and fill them with candy cane Hershey’s kisses. I add a small amount of peppermint extract to the cookie batter to compliment the kisses.

They are great, easy peppermint cookies for the season.

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Thumbprint Cookies with Candy Cane Kisses on a wood cutting table

Tips for making thumbprint cookies with kisses:

Don’t get scared that the dough looks very thick, it’s supposed to. It’s shortbread-like cookie dough, so it is firm. If the dough it not firm enough, it will spread and you won’t get the perfect round cookie balls.

Don’t make a well when making these cookies, just roll a cookie dough ball and bake it.

Gently press the Candy Cake Kiss into the center of the baked cookie as soon as you take them out of the oven, while they’re still hot.

Transfer the cookies onto a wire rack to cool.

This cookie dough can be used in other thumbprint cookies, just take out the peppermint extract from the recipe.

Thumbprint Cookies with Candy Cane Kisses on a wood cutting table

Some more cookie recipes to enjoy:

Nutella Cookies

Orange Sugar Cookies

Maple Pecan Cream Cheese Cookies

Peanut Butter Cookies

Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies

Italian Fig Cookies

Thumbprint Cookies with Candy Cane Kisses on a wood cutting table

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Thumbprint Cookies with Peppermint Kisses

These little shortbread cookies are soft, buttery, and have a little peppermint bonus in the middle.
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Course: Cookies
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 14 minutes minutes
Total Time: 24 minutes minutes
Servings: 10 (20-22 cookies)
Calories: 373kcal
Author: Lyuba Brooke

Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 egg yolks from large eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/4 tsp peppermint extract
  • Salt
  • 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 20-22 candy cane Hershey's kisses (more if you want to decorate them)
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Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350° and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. 
  • Beat butter on medium-high speed for about a minute. Pour in sugar and beat butter and sugar for a couple more minutes. 
  • Beat in eggs one at a time, mixing after each addition.
  • Add peppermint and vanilla extracts and salt. 
  • Turn down the mixer to stir and add flour. Stir it in until combined. You may need to use rubber spatula at the end.
  • Use #40 or #50 cookie scoop to scoop out even amounts of cookie dough. Roll cookie dough into balls and place them on the prepared baking sheet 1 or 2 inches apart.
  • Bake for 12-14 minutes.
  • Gently press in a candy cane kiss in the center of each cookie immediately after you take the cookies out of the oven. Cool cookies on a wire rack.
  • To make decorative "snow," simply grate candy cane kisses on a fine cheese grater over cookies.

Notes

All images and text ©Lyubov Brooke for ©Will Cook For Smiles. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If using my posts in collections and features, please link back to this post for the recipe. Disclaimer: Nutrition information shown is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate as most ingredients and brands have a slight variation.

Nutrition

Calories: 373kcal | Carbohydrates: 39g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Cholesterol: 90mg | Sodium: 12mg | Potassium: 42mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 620IU | Calcium: 33mg | Iron: 1.6mg
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ABOUT LYUBA

I’m Lyuba Brooke, mother of 2, the cook, recipe developer, photographer, and author behind willcookforsmiles.com. I share many classic and original recipes, cooking tips, and tutorials. My passion is sharing delicious meals for everyone to try. Read more...

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Filed Under: Christmas Baking, Cookies, Peppermint

All images and text ©Lyubov Brooke for ©Will Cook For Smiles. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If using my posts in collections and features, please link back to this post for the recipe. Disclaimer: Nutrition information shown is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate as most ingredients and brands have variations.

Comments

  1. trisha says

    March 22, 2023 at 12:00 am

    5 stars
    Yum!

    Reply
  2. Cheryl Sotelo says

    December 19, 2021 at 3:22 pm

    Kisses melt as soon as you put them in the middle of the cookie why?

    Reply
    • LyubaB says

      December 22, 2021 at 3:16 pm

      Hi Cheryl, I would let the cookies cool slightly so that they are still soft but not hot.

      Reply
  3. LyubaB says

    December 17, 2020 at 12:36 pm

    You can and I would cook them just a minute or 2 longer.

    Reply
  4. Amy says

    December 11, 2020 at 1:27 pm

    Can you freeze the cookie balls before baking them! Is the time and temp the same? Thank you.

    Reply
  5. Amy says

    December 5, 2019 at 11:13 pm

    How much salt am I supposed to add?

    Reply
    • LyubaB says

      December 23, 2019 at 9:20 am

      Hi, Amy, you add a pinch of salt.

      Reply

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