Cranberry Centered Thumbnail Cookies

Ingredients list for Cranberry Centered Thumbnail Cookies

• 1 cup Cranberries
• 2½ cups Refined flour (maida)
• ¾ cup brown sugar/jaggery
• 1 cup Butter
• 1 Egg
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
• 1½ teaspoons Baking powder
• a pinch Salt
• ½ cup Sugar
• Rind of lemon
• Lemon juice of ½ lemon
• ½ cup Walnuts toasted and coarsely crushed

Method

1. Preheat oven at 180ºC.
2. Combine powdered brown sugar and butter in a bowl. Beat well with an electric beater till light and creamy.
3. Break egg in a bowl and whisk well. Add half the whisked egg to butter-sugar mixture and beat well. Add vanilla essence and beat again.
4. Break egg in a bowl and whisk well. Add half the whisked egg to butter-sugar mixture and beat well. Add vanilla essence and beat again.
5. Heat a non-stick pan. Add cranberries, sugar, lemon rind, lemon juice and some water, mix well and cook till cranberries turn pulpy. Switch off heat and blend into a fine paste using water as required.
6. Divide the dough into equal portions and shape them into small balls. Flatten them into cookies and place them on a baking tray.
7. Make a dent in the centre of each cookie with your thumb. Brush with remaining whisked eggs, sprinkle walnuts and fill the dents with the prepared cranberry paste.
8. Put the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 12-15 minutes.
9. Remove from heat, cool and serve.