Thumbprint Cookies

Start by first beating the butter for about a minute at medium speed, this will just make it easier to incorporate our brown sugar.

Once the butter is little bit creamy, add the brown sugar and increase the speed up to a high and mix for about 2 minutes. You may need to stop and just clean the sides or the flat beater so that everything mixes well.

Add our Dulce de Leche and mix at high speed for about 3 minutes. While its mixing, add the shredded coconut, vanilla and egg. In the meantime while all those ingredients are mixing, we want to sift the flour and cornflour together.

Reduce the speed down to a medium and begin adding the flour slowly in small batches. Once all the flour is in, increase the speed to high for about 2 to 3 minutes, you should have a very sticky dough by then. If you need to stop and scrape the sides go ahead do so.

Flour your working surface as we will be very lightly working the dough. For the dough in the mixer you can sprinkle some flour and work with a spatula to get it into a ball and then move to using your hands to get onto the counter.

Now we don’t want to knead this like a usual dough, it’s a very soft and gentle dough. Just gently rock it from side to side until it becomes uniform and covered in flour, it can be rolled into a ball or a rectangular slab.

Once we got the dough where we want it, we’ll start cutting up into small balls weighting about 22g or close to. Give them a little space when placing in your tray, depending on the tray you may need to use a sheet of baking paper so they don't stick to the tray.

For the hole or thumbprint, I used a wooden spoon but you can use anything. Just don’t go completely through the dough, just a small indentation

Before you take to the oven you can choose to also fill the hole with Dulce de Leche or leave them blank. It is more a personal preference in the way they look.