I have combined and mixed from a few recipes (as I always do.. ) so I can't give credit to any one in particular, so here goes:
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cup ground nuts (as you may have guessed, I used pecans)
1 cup flour
1/2 cup butter at room temperature (I used Kerrygold)
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt (skip this step if your butter is salted)
1 tsp vanilla extract, or seeds from one vanilla bean
powdered sugar, and apple butter (or pumpkin butter etc)
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Grab a couple of cookie sheets, and either lightly grease, or cover in parchment paper. I have some really good non-stick ones from Ikea that never need either grease or paper, you know your kitchen and tools!
Mix sugar, salt, flour and nuts in a large bowl. In a smaller bowl mix the butter and vanilla. Once butter is creamed, add to nut/flour mixture. Mix well until you have a thick dough easy to shape.
Make 1" balls and place on the cookie sheet about 2" apart. Press your thumb, or back of a spoon into the middle of the cookie. Bake for about 15 minutes, keep an eye on them! You want to pull them out just as they start browning lightly along the bottom edges.
Let them mostly cool on the cookie sheet, then gently move them to a wire rack.
Once on the wire rack dust with powdered sugar (I use a tea sieve), and place a small amount of apple butter in the thumbprint.Let them cool completely. And enjoy!
As a footnote, you can also use pumpkin butter, jam, pear butter or something similar (maybe Nutella!) For a simple pumpkin butter recipe, check here.
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