These homemade thumbprint cookies are ideal to bake during the fall season as the recipe creatively subs out the fruity jam centre and replaces it with delicious pumpkin puree and chocolate drizzle. This is a great recipe to make as it only requires a few ingredients and has minimal prep time.
With fall in the air more and more baked goods are incorporating pumpkins into cult favorite recipe as seen here with these pumpkin thumbprint cookies. The dough is made from a combination of all-purpose and whole wheat flour, vanilla, egg, sugar and butter. Once the dough is rolled into cookies it be pressed down with either a spoon or a thumb for the filling made from pumpkin, egg, vanilla and cinnamon to go in. Then the finish product is drizzled with chocolate and ready to serve.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Pumpkin-inspired Baked Goods
- Opportunity for bakeries to innovate on incorporating pumpkin into different baked goods using creative ingredient substitutions like pumpkin puree instead of jam.
- Minimal Ingredient Recipes
- Opportunity to create a product line around recipes with minimal ingredients that can be executed with less prep time and lower production costs.
- Chocolate Drizzle Desserts
- Opportunity for dessert businesses to offer chocolate drizzle as a customizable option for desserts like cakes, cookies, and cupcakes.
Where This Applies
- Baking Industry
- The baking industry has an opportunity to explore new flavor combinations like these pumpkin thumbprint cookies that incorporate seasonal ingredients like pumpkins.
- Packaged Foods Industry
- There is a potential to offer pre-made cookie dough with pumpkin filling as a seasonal offering for the Fall season, marketed towards busy customers with limited prep time.
- Dessert Industry
- The dessert industry can explore the use of chocolate drizzle as a popular and customizable addition to various desserts.
