Happy New Year! Where does the time go?
For Christmas, my sweet friend Marcelle gave me a cute reusable shopping bag full of gourmet goodies. Among them was a jar of delicious cherry preserves. For whatever reason, when I saw them, I immediately thought they would be good on thumbprint cookies–even though I’ve never eaten or made thumbprint cookies. It was surprisingly hard to find a recipe for thumprints; most of my cookbooks simply didn’t have one, and the ones that did all called for nuts, which I didn’t want. I finally found a recipe in Family Fun magazine that sounded like what I wanted, and I don’t plan on looking any further. The cookies turned out perfect. They were buttery, tender, and just a little crisp, like a good shortbread, and the jam on top turned out sticky and sweet, like candy. I’m only sorry we didn’t discover them sooner!
For the recipe, click HERE.
yeah! I’m glad the jam was yummy. Let me know what you do with the salt.
Hi Melissa,
Is it possible to repost this recipe? Sadly the link doesn’t take you to a recipe. Many thanks!
Andrea, I have tried so hard to find that recipe!! I never even wrote it down for myself; I always just followed the link, and now that’s it’s broken, I’m trying to find a comparable recipe. š
I do have a few other thumbprint recipes; you could just modify one of them to leave out any extracts other than vanilla, and use sour cherry preserves in the filling. Good luck!