Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies

These are delicious and easy low calorie cookies.  They have 61 calories per cookie and satisfy your sweet tooth.  They are fast and easy to make as well.  Find Almond Paste on the baking aisle at the grocery store in a can.  It is a kind of expensive but you can bake a couple of batches with one can of the paste.  You can also make your own almond paste.  There are a bunch of recipes on the web on how to do it. Use homemade raspberry freezer jam to make these cookies extra tastey!!  Enjoy!

Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies

 Ingredients:

    3/4 c  Grated Almond Paste

    2/3 c  Sugar

      5 T  Butter,Softened

    1/4 t  Vanilla

      1 lg Egg White

  1 1/4 c  Flour

    1/4 t  Salt

      6 T  Raspberry Jam

1.  Preheat oven to 325°.

2. Line large cookie sheet with parchment of use silpat on bottom of

pan.

3. Place first 3 ingredients in a bowl; beat with a mixer at medium

speed for 4 minutes or until light and fluffy.  Add vanilla and egg

white; beat well.

4. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.

Add flour and salt to almond paste mixture; beat at low speed until

well blended.  Use a cookie scoop and shape dough into 34-36 1 inch

balls.  Place balls on cookie sheet and press thumb or back of cookie

scoop into center of each cookie, leaving an indentation.  Bake for 10

minutes until set.

4. Remove cookies from pans; cool on wire racks.  Spoon about 1/2

teaspoon raspberry jam into center of each cookie.