I stayed in the Family Favorites section with Thumbprint Cookies on p. 77. These are fun cookies rolled in nuts and topped with your favorite jam.

These are fairly quick cookies, with a standard dough of brown sugar, butter, vanilla, salt, and flour. After mixing that all together, form balls that are then coated in egg white and then rolled in chopped nuts.

Once they’re on the cookie sheet, press a thumb into them to form a little dent where the jam will go after they are baked and cooled. I remember making similar cookies with my grandmother when I was a little girl, and I always delighted at pressing my thumb into the cookies. As a grown-up, my thumb was a little too big for the cookies I made, so I had to follow up with my index finger.

The cookies are baked, cooled ,and then the dents filled with a bit of jam. I used raspberry because … well, it’s what I had on-hand, and I love raspberries!

I don’t remember having thumbprint cookies that were rolled in nuts as a kid, and maybe I wouldn’t have like them then, but I really liked that touch here. (And I know that will spark some debate among those who are stoutly anti-nut when it comes to baking!)

Bottom line: The cookies were lightly sweet, and sung with the addition of the nuts and jam. I would make them again.