Recipe: Jam Thumbprint Gems
For 1 Persons
Category: None
1 1/2 c All-purpose flour
1 ts Baking pwd.
1/2 ts Salt
1/2 ts Ground cinnamon
1/4 ts Ground cloves
1/4 c Mott's Natural Apple Sauce
2 tb Vegetable shortening
1/2 c Plus 1 Tb. powdered sugar;
-divided
1 Egg
1/2 ts Vanilla
1/2 c Strawberry or other fruit
-preserves
Preheat oven to 400 F. Spray cooky sheet with nonstick cooking spray. In
small bowl, combine first 5 ingredients. In large bowl, whisk together
apple sauce and shortening until shortening breaks up into pea-sized
pieces. Add 1/2 cup powdered sugar; stir well. Add egg and vanilla; stir
well. Add flour mixture to apple sauce mixture;stir till well blended.
(Mixture will be stiff) Using flour-coated hands, roll teaspoonfuls of
dough into balls. Place 1 inch apart on cooky sheet. Press thumb gently
into center of each ball. Spoon 1/2 tsp. jam into each indentation. Bake
12-15 mins. or till lightly browned. Cool completely on wore
rack;sprinkling with rest of the 1 Tb. pwd. sugar. 2 dozen cookies
Each cookie equals: Calories 70 Sodium 60 mg. Total fat 1.5 gm. Cholesterol
10 mg. % calories from fat--17 >From Mott's Apple Sauce "A better Way to
Bake-Delicious Low Fat Recipes
Posted to Digest eat-lf.v097.n193 by "William & Evelyn Hall"
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