Cooking & Baking
In reply to the discussion: Christmas Cookies [View all]Desert_Leslie
(131 posts)I made cookies today that are sort of along the lines of what you are looking for -- and these were great:
Raspberry Walnut Thumbprint Cookies
From "The Kitchen Magpie" website.
The general concept: You make a pretty simple cookie dough, roll the dough balls in chopped walnuts, put in a thumbprint, bake for 10 minutes, take them out and fill them with the jam of your choice -- then they bake for another 8 minutes.
The recipe calls for raspberry but they say you can sub in whatever jam flavor you'd like.
I did half a batch with fig preserves and half a batch with strawberry.
I added the zest of one lemon (on my own) to zip up the dough while it was being mixed. Lemon was undetectable in the final product, but ....
If you are looking for snickerdoodle, you could add in some snickerdoodle-type spices to the cookie dough.
These cookies were tender yet crunchy from the walnuts. YUMMY.