I love baking cookies, especially for the holiday season. Two of my favorite cookies to bake are sugar cookies and thumbprint cookies. This year for New Year’s Eve, I combined my two favorites and added a sweet twist by making some new gummy bear sugar cookie thumbprint cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 cup of white sugar
- 1/2 cup of butter
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons of milk
- 1 egg
- 2 1/3 cups of all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
- colored sugar
- gummy bears
Directions
- Mix together the sugar and butter.
- Add the vanilla, milk, and egg.
- In a separate bowl, stir together the flour and baking soda.
- Slowly add the dry mixture to the wet ingredients.
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- Roll the cookie dough into one-inch balls.
- Flatten the balls.
- Roll the flattened balls in the colored sugar.
- Place the cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Press a small indentation in the center of each cookie.
- Place one gummy bear in the center of each indentation.
- Bake for 8 to 12 minutes or until golden.
- Allow the cookies to cool slightly before removing from the cookie sheet.
- Allow the cookies to cool thoroughly.
- Store the sugar cookies in an airtight container.
Image Credits
Gummy Bear Sugar Cookie Thumbprint Cookies Recipe © 2015 Heather Johnson
Creaming the Sugar and Butter for the Gummy Bear Sugar Cookie Thumbprint Cookies © 2015 Heather Johnson
Adding the Dry Ingredients for the Gummy Bear Sugar Cookie Thumbprint Cookies © 2015 Heather Johnson
Gummy Bear Sugar Cookie Thumbprint Cookie Dough © 2015 Heather Johnson
Gummy Bears and Colored Sugar for the Gummy Bear Sugar Cookie Thumbprint Cookies © 2015 Heather Johnson
Flattened Gummy Bear Sugar Cookie Thumbprint Cookie Dough Balls © 2015 Heather Johnson
Pressing Indentations in the Gummy Bear Sugar Cookie Thumbprint Cookie Dough Balls © 2015 Heather Johnson
Putting Gummy Bears in the Gummy Bear Sugar Cookie Thumbprint Cookie Dough Balls © 2015 Heather Johnson
Baking the Gummy Bear Sugar Cookie Thumbprint Cookies © 2015 Heather Johnson
Baked Gummy Bear Sugar Cookie Thumbprint Cookies © 2015 Heather Johnson
Gummy Bear Sugar Cookie Thumbprint Cookies © 2015 Heather Johnson