Dark Chocolate Ginger Thumbprint Cookies
The grown-up version of childhood peanut butter kiss cookies: squares of dark chocolate flecked with crystallized ginger cozied up with shortbread!
Servings: 18 cookies
Calories: 75kcal
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 2 t. fresh ginger finely grated
- 1 t. vanilla
- 1/4 t. salt
- 1 1/4 cups flour
- 2 t. baking powder
- 1 bar Chocolove Ginger Crystallized in Dark Chocolate or other ginger chocolate, broken into 18 squares
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Cream together butter, powdered sugar, ginger, vanilla, and salt until smooth. Slowly add flour and baking powder, mixing just until combined.
- Roll dough into 18 equal balls and set on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Bake at 350° for 10 minutes.
- Press a square of crystallized ginger chocolate into each cookie, being careful not to flatten too much.
- Return to the oven for 4-6 minutes, until edges are light golden and chocolate is just melted.
- Let cool on a wire rack until chocolate has set.