Dulce de Leche Thumbprint Cookies (6 Ingredients)
These Dulce de Leche cookies are made with 6 simple ingredients and have a deliciously light sugar cookie base and a creamy rich caramel topping. We’re using a technique similar to that used to make thumbprint cookies, but in the shape of a heart. This easy cookie recipe takes just a few minutes of prep time. Once you chill the dough for an hour and bake up, you’ll be rewarded with an adorably tasty dessert!
These Dulce de Leche thumbprint cookies are such a delicious sweet treat! Soft buttery sugar cookies are topped with a caramel center and topped with flakey salt.
Dulce de leche is one of those ingredients that’s celebrated often in recipes across Latin America. The thick, luscious caramel is the perfect pairing with the cute cookie base.
This thumbprint cookie recipe with dulce de leche features similar flavors and textures as the popular South American alfajores cookie, but are easier to make!
If you’ve got a can of leftover caramel in the fridge, this baking idea with dulce de leche is the perfect place to use it.
Ingredients
Step by Step Instructions
Reminder: You can also just form a small well in the center if you don’t like the idea of a heart shaped center.
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Buen provecho,
Dulce de Leche Thumbprint Cookies (6 Ingredients)
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Yield: 18 cookies 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: Latin
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
These Dulce de Leche cookies are made with 6 simple ingredients and have a deliciously light sugar cookie base and a creamy rich caramel topping. We’re using a technique similar to that used to make thumbprint cookies, but in the shape of a heart. This easy cookie recipe takes just a few minutes of prep time. Once you chill the dough for an hour and bake up, you’ll be rewarded with an adorably tasty dessert!
Ingredients
- 1 cup salted butter, softened to room temperature
- 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup dulce de leche
- Optional: salt flakes for finishing
Instructions
- Cream together the butter and sugar. In a large mixing bowl combine the softened butter and sugar. Beat with a stand mixer, electric mixer or by hand until it appears to lighten in color and texture.
- Add eggs & vanilla. Beat in the eggs and vanilla until evenly combined.
- Add the flour. Begin by adding the flour ½ cup at a time, folding the dough together until it’s all combined before adding more. Continue to knead with your hands for at least 5 minutes, or until the dough is no longer sticky or crumbly and holds together well.
- Chill. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for 1 hour. Preheat your oven to 350 when the hour is almost up.
- Form the cookies. Using a cookie scooper, form cookie dough balls and arrange on a parchment lined baking sheet. Gently press the cookie dough balls with your palm or the base of a flat glass to flatten. With your index finger or the back of a tiny spoon, press into the center of the cookies twice to form a heart. Carefully transfer the dulce de leche into a piping bag and pipe into the indentations in the cookies.
- Bake. Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, or until they begin to turn golden brown around the edges. Optional: sprinkle with flake salt. Enjoy!
If these cookies are baked and then frozen will the dolce la leche caramel harden?
Yes it will.
Will dulce le leche harden on cookies after being frozen?
Yes it will.