Polvorones Recipe

Polvorones (Thumbprint Butter Cookies)- A Puerto Rican Favorite
 32 cookies
8oz Butter –non salted …..if you use butter with salt don’t add additional salt in this recipe
2/3 cups Sugar
½ Vanilla Bean (seeds scrapped out and used in cookies) If you don’t have vanilla bean use 1Tbsp of good vanilla extract)
1/8 tsp salt
2 cups + 2 Tbsp (if using vanilla extract) All purpose flour
Raspberry, Apricot Jam or Guava paste
Preheat oven at 350 degrees



Cream, butter and sugar using electric mixer on high. Slice vanilla bean and scrap out the seeds inside, add the seeds to the butter and sugar- or add vanilla extract. Mix until well incorporated.
Add flour and turn mixer on low until well incorporated. If you used vanilla extract add the additional 2 Tbsp of flour, if you use the vanilla bean instead don’t add the additional flour.
Grease cookie sheet with butter. Make 1 inch balls with the cookie dough and place one inch apart.
Using your thumb gently insert in the middle of each cookie and lightly make a small dent in the cookie dough, make sure not to break the bottom of the cookie. Or you can use the back of a knife to make the dent in the cookie. Add a teaspoon of jam in each hole, or a small piece of guava paste.
Place in oven and bake until lightly until edges are golden. Remove while hot from cookie sheet and transfer to cookie rack.
If you have almond extract, add a touch to cold milk and it will add a great taste when eating your cookie.