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Christmas is a time for celebrating Jesus’ birthday and baking Christmas cookies. One popular cookie for the holidays is hallongrotta, or most commonly known, thumbprint cookies.

For hallongrotta you will need:

½ cup sugar

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, creamed

1 whole egg

2 cups flour

¼ tsp salt

½ tsp any preferred jelly

The directions are as follows:

Preheat oven to 375°

Cream butter and sugar

Add egg and mix

Add flour and salt

When mixed well, form dough into marble sized balls and place on cookie sheet

Press thumb in the middle of dough balls

Put jelly in the center

Bake for about 8 minutes

Now the cookies are baked and beautiful. The perfect little cookie that will make the family beg for more.