Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

Serves: 40 Save

Ingredients (16)

  • The cookie: (A Martha Recipe.):
  • 2 Cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 Cup plus 1 Tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder (high quality)
  • 2 teaspoons Kosher salt
  • 1 Cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temp
  • 1 1/3 Cups sugar, plus more for rolling the cookies in
  • 2 large egg yolks
  • 2 Tablespoons heavy cream
  • 2 Teaspoons vanilla extract
  • Chocolate and Vanilla Bean Ganache: (Adapted from a different Martha recipe.):
  • This makes a perfect amount of ganache for the cookies
  • 1/2 Cup honey
  • 1/2 Cup heavy cream
  • 1 whole vanilla bean, split and scraped
  • 5 ounces bittersweet chocolate
  • 3 Tablespoons unsalted butter, room temp and cut into pieces

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