Fruity Thumbprint Cookies Recipe & the Truvia Lunch Makeover Challenge

When it comes to baking, my family LOVES when I make something SWEET!  Since I am one that enjoys finding and creating new recipes in the kitchen, I was excited to be invited to take part in the Truvia Lunch Makeover Challenge. With this challenge, I was to create one of their recipes that uses the Truvia® natural sweetener. Since I am one of the many moms worried about the excessive sugar in the foods my family eats, I was a little eager to see if my family would notice if I added a natural sweetener in one of my recipes.

So I baked up these yummy looking Fruity Thumbprint Cookies. Not only do my children think these are great, so does my husband. We had a friend over yesterday that complimented the cookies too! So with that said, I think I will be baking this fall and winter with more Truvia! Even though these cookies that I baked still had sugar, by using the natural sweetener, I was able to reduce the amount of regular cane sugar I would normally use in a cookie recipe.

Below is my version of the Fruity Thumbprint Cookies Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter, at room temperature
• 3 1/2 tablespoons Truvia™ natural sweetener
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 egg whites
• 1 cups finely chopped peanuts
• 1/2 cup Smucker’s Strawberry Preserves with Truvia™ or Blackberry Jam with Truvia™

Directions:

1. HEAT oven to 350°F
2. In a large mixing bowl, add all ingredients except 2 egg whites and chopped peanuts.
3. Put egg whites in a bowl and chopped peanuts in a different bowl
4. Roll dough into balls using about 1 TBS of dough if not a little more. Dip ball in egg, then in peanuts and place on cookie sheet.
5. Using your thumb, make an indention in the balls of dough.
6. Bake for 16 minutes on center rack.
7. Remove from oven and place 1/2 TST of preserves into the indention of each cookie and return to oven for an additional 2 to 3 minutes or until lightly brown.
8. Cool on baking sheet for around 10 minutes, then move to wire rack.
9. Enjoy your cookies!

This was the first time I had ever made thumbprint cookies and they went FAST! I cannot wait to make these cookies with the Truvia® natural sweetener along with some of the other recipes too! Now I got to make more of these for my daughters’ lunches!

For more information about Truvia, please visit: https://www.truvia.com.

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