Gluten Free Nut Butter Thumbprints filled with Jam

This nut butter cookie tastes great and a lot like those hershey kisses cookies except that it is filled with jam. I didn't have regular white rice flour so used sweet rice flour and they turned out very good. Basically my goal is to have gluten free food that tastes so good that non celiacs want to eat it too. Another great recipe from p. 176 of Bette Hagman's "The GF Gourmet makes Dessert"

10-15 minutes, 350F, 2 ungreased cookie sheets

Preblend the dry ingredients then set aside

• 1/2 cup sweet rice or regular white rice flour
• 1/2 cup tapioca flour
• 1/2 cup cornstarch
• 1.5 tsp. potato flour
• 1/4 tsp. xanthan gum
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt

Cream together

• 1/2 cup margarine
• 3/4 cup nut butter (I used cashew & it tastes great)
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar

Then add

• 2 eggs

Then add dry ingredients and mix just till smooth.

Put in the fridge for a little while or dust your hands with potato or cornstarch to make the dough easier to handle. Make about 1" balls and put on cookie sheet. Make a depression in each with your thumb. Fill the depression with jam & bake.