This Week’s Recipe: Thumbprint Cookies

Cookie baking season is upon us! (Which, basically, is anytime the mercury dips below sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit for a few days together.) And during this self-proclaimed period of non-thermometer-melting temperatures, we were invited to watch a football game over at a friend’s house, and I volunteered to bring the desserts.

The first of which (I went kinds nuts as it was the first true bake of the season) was jammy thumbprint cookies.

Now, as it happens, I often find the base cookie dough too sweet when combined with another sugar-ladened element like jam. So to counteract this phenomenon, I concocted my own cranberry jam recipe. (The recipe will come later.)

And it turned out marvelous!

Click here for the base cookie recipe.

Christie: I can see Inspector Japp or Captain Hastings enjoying one of these with a cup of tea! I don’t think their quite fancy enough to tempt the great Hercule Poirot though…