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Simple Chocolate Thumbprints

Source of Recipe


Country Home, December 2002






List of Ingredients



• 1/2 of an 18-oz. roll refrigerated peanut butter cookie dough
  
• 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate pieces
  
• 1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
  






Instructions



1. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
   
   
2. Bake in 375-degree oven 7 minutes. Remove from oven; gently press a shallow indentation in each cookie with the back of a round 1/2-teaspoon measuring spoon. Bake 2 minutes more or until bottoms are lightly brown. Cool on wire rack.
   
   
3. In a small saucepan combine chocolate pieces and sweetened condensed milk. Cook and stir over medium heat until chocolate is melted. Transfer to pastry bag fitted with small star tip. Pipe about 1 teaspoon filling into the center of each cookie.
   
   Makes about 36 cookies.