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    Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

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    These delicious chocolate thumbprint cookies are made with mandarin zest, cranberries, dates and hazelnuts. Filled with silky smooth chocolate ganache. Perfect fruit and nut cookie with a chocolate center.

    chocolate thumbprint cookies with fruit and nuts
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    chocolate thumbprint cookies with fruit and nuts

    Baking season is that much better with Endangered Species Chocolate! These buttery fruit and nut thumbprint cookies with chocolate ganache are made with mandarin zest, dried cranberries, dates and hazelnuts. They are filled with smooth and silky chocolate ganache made with Endangered Species Chocolate baking chocolate.

    The chocolate thumbprint cookie recipe was inspired by the delicious flavors of the traditional fruitcake. We added dates and cranberries to the cookies. The fruit gives them a soft chewy texture and a sweet and tart flavor. The hazelnuts add some nuttiness and crunch. The mandarin or orange zest adds another layer of sweet, fruity and slightly bitter citrus zesty bite. The flavor combinations of fruit, nuts and chocolate work harmoniously in this cookie recipe.

    INGREDIENTS FOR THIS RECIPE

    Fruit and Nut Cookies

    All-purpose flour

    Unsalted butter room temperature

    Granulated sugar

    Hazelnuts

     Dried cranberries

    Medjool dated

    Mandarin or orange zest

    Pure vanilla extract

    Baking powder and sea salt

    Chocolate Ganache

    Semi-sweet chocolate chips

    Heavy cream

    How to make fruit and nut cookies

    Pre heat oven to 350°.

    Place flour, hazelnuts, cranberries, dates, mandarin zest, baking powder and salt into a mixing bowl and mix well. Set aside.

    Place room temperature butter and sugar into the bowl of a high-speed mixer and mix until well mixed. Add the egg and vanilla extract and continue mixing until fluffy.

    Incorporate the dry mixture a little at a time and form the cookie dough.

    Roll about a tablespoon full of cookie dough into a ball. Place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Use the back of the spoon to create a dip.

    Bake cookies for about 13-15 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.

    How to make chocolate ganache

    Heat the heavy cream.

    Add chocolate chips to the heated heavy cream and mix together.

    Fill the cookies with the chocolate ganache. Cool before serving.

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    chocolate thumbprint cookies with fruit and nuts

    Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

    Delicious fruit and nut Thumbprint Cookies with Chocolate Ganache are made with mandarin zest, cranberries, dates and hazelnuts. Filled with silky smooth chocolate ganache.
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    Prep Time 15 mins
    Cook Time 13 mins
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    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 2 dozen cookies
    Calories 125 kcal
    Ingredients
      

    Fruit and Nut Cookies

    • 1 ¾ cup flour
    • 1 ½ sticks butter room temperature
    • ½ cup sugar
    • ½ cup chopped hazelnuts
    • ¼ cup chopped dried cranberries
    • ¼ cup chopped medjool dated
    • 1 tablespoons mandarin zest
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extracts
    • ½ teaspoon baking powder
    • ¼ teaspoon sea salt

    Chocolate Ganache

    • ½ cup chocolate chips
    • ¼ cup heavy cream
    Instructions
     
    • Preheat oven to 350°.
    • Place flour, hazelnuts, cranberries, dates, mandarin zest, baking powder and salt into a mixing bowl and mix well. Set aside.
    • Place room temperature butter and sugar into the bowl of a high-speed mixer and mix until well mixed. Add the egg and vanilla extract and continue mixing until fluffy.
    • Incorporate the dry mixture a little at a time until cookie dough is formed.
    • Roll about a tablespoon full of cookie dough into a ball. Place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Use the back of the spoon to create a dip.
    • Bake cookies for about 13-15 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.

    Fruit and Nut Cookies

      Chocolate Ganache

      • Heat the heavy cream.
      • Add chocolate chips to the heated heavy cream and mix together.
      • Fill the cookies with the chocolate ganache. Cool before serving.
      Keyword chocolate ganache, fruit cookies, nut cookies, thumbprint cookies

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