Delicious Raspberry Thumbprints: Healtier Version

photo by lepiaf.geo

What can be better than a batch of delicious cookies on a cold snow day? I would say the only thing that can make cookies better if they are a little healthier. Often, I take the recipe and modify it to make it healthier yet still extremely pleasing. Here you go:

Dough:

1,5 cups of whole-wheat flour

1/2 cup of organic butter or earth balance vegetable margarine, softened

1/4 cup of turbinado sugar

1/2 egg yolk

2 tablespoons of orange juice

Preparation:

1. Into large bowl, measure flour, butter, sugar, orange juice and egg yolk. With mixer at medium speed, beat ingreadients until well mixed, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. Cover and refrigerate about 1 hour.

2. Preheat oven to 375 F.

3. Shape rounded teaspoonful of dough into balls. Place 1 inch apart on cookie sheets.

4. Press thumb into centers of cookies, making deep indentations.

5. Bake 10 minutes.

6. Remove from oven and with 1/2 cup organic or lower sugar raspberry (apricot or strawberry) preserves fill indentations.

7. Bake 5 minutes more; immediately remove and cool cookies on racks.

Makes approximately 50 cookies.

Enjoy with a cup of hot tea!