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Tutti-Frutti Thumbprint Cookies

By Jesse Szewczyk

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Cookies dusted with yellow pink raspberry and purple fruit sugar and filled with strawberry raspberry blueberry and...
Photo by Travis Rainey, Food Styling by Emilie Fosnocht

These Technicolor cookies are the perfect way to punch up your cookie plate. Tender shortbread-like dough flavored with a generous amount of lemon zest and vanilla extract gets rolled into balls, then dimpled with a thumb to create small indents. Once baked, the cookies are tossed in a mixture of freeze-dried fruit pulverized with granulated sugar, coating the outsides in a fun blanket of fruity flavor. Each indent gets filled with a fruit filling of your choice for a plate of festive cookies bursting with sweet-tart flavor.

The true beauty of this recipe lies in its endless adaptability. You can use whatever freeze-dried fruit you desire to tint and flavor the cookies a vast kaleidoscope of colors, and mix and match the fruit filling however you please. If a monochromatic cookie is what you’re after, use freeze-dried strawberries paired with strawberry jam. If an eclectic array of cookies is more your speed, use a combination of fruits and jams to create a true tutti-fruitti result. Just about any combo will taste good, so don’t be afraid to let your imagination run wild.

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