Sweet, festive, and beautifully simple — these thumbprint cookies are perfect for holiday baking and cookie exchanges.
Thumbprint Jam Cookies
This Thumbprint Cookie Recipe pairs salty, nutty cookies with sweet jam the way generations of Midwestern grandmas have been making. It uses a special technique of baking the cookies for a bit before making the indentation, which helps prevent the cookies from cracking quite so much.
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Keto Thumbprint Cookie
This easy keto thumbprint cookie recipe is sugar-free, gluten-free and grain-free, plus high-protein with 5.3 grams of protein and just 0.8 net carbs per cookie!
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Apple Butter Thumbprint Cookies
Soft, buttery cookies melt away with puddles of concentrated apple butter in the middle. These apple butter cookies are such a treat, and an ideal way to use up a spare jar of apple butter!
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Christmas Thumbprint Cookies
Some things you just gotta have at Christmas and these Christmas Thumbprint Cookies are one of them! These are good old fashioned cookies that have been around for generations.
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Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
You only need 7 ingredients to make these easy raspberry thumbprint cookies. They are classic for the holidays made with a rich, buttery shortbread cookie and sweet jam!
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Almond Flour Thumbprint Cookies
These Almond Flour Thumbprint Cookies are the easiest and most delicious cookies! A classic shortbread cookie is filled with sweet jam. They only take 25 minutes from start to finish!
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Apricot Jam Thumbprint Cookies
These apricot jam thumbprint cookies are among the simplest to make. Though simple, however, they are particularly delicate, soft, and delicious. The sweet-sour apricot jam completes this dessert, enhancing its goodness.
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Easter Thumbprint Cookies
These Easter thumbprint cookies are filled with colorful sprinkles and are soft yet still chewy. These thumbprint cookies are so delicious simple and quick to make. If you do any sort of baking regularly, you probably have most of the ingredients you need in the house already!
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PB and J Cookies
These PB and J cookies are everything you love about the classic sandwich in cookie form. They’re soft, tender, and full of that sweet-salty nostalgic goodness.
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Tahini Thumbprint Cookies
Thumbprint cookies are always in style. Perfect for a light dessert with coffee or tea, although I would be lying if I said I haven’t eaten them for breakfast! Tahini thumbprint cookies are next level in the thumbprint cookie world. I personally love these filled with a lemon jam, making them tahini lemon cookies, but any flavor jam would work well here. I particularly like these cookies with lemon ginger jam.
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Farah Zeb is a mother of five, including two children with special needs. She shares practical parenting tips and resources to help other families navigate daily challenges and create supportive, nurturing environments.
