Cherry Ginger Thumbprint Cookies
Glittery Thumbprint Cookies with cherry preserves and crystallized ginger could be the crowned jewel of your cookie exchange this year!
Every holiday season, my heart is filled with child-like delight at the thought of Cookie Baking Day. I love everything about baking holiday cookies:
- Making an array of recipes that vary in color, shape, texture and flavor.
- The family fun that comes along with baking together.
- The Christmas music playing in the background.
- The cherished memories that surface of past holiday seasons.
- The fact that Christmas cookies are made to share with unsuspecting friends, or at a cookies exchange.
- The wrapping of the cookies with vibrant ribbons and tags.
- And the inevitable smiles that follow when you hand a plate of pure joy to a loved one.
Cookies = Happiness, if only for a moment.
A nibble of happiness, may not last a lifetime, but it sure can brighten someone’s day.
In my mind, no other cookie variety can compete with thumbprint cookies.
The tender buttery dough bakes into soft delicate cookie shells, filled with endless possibilities.
My favorite recipe is Dulce de Leche Thumbprint Cookies sprinkled with sea salt, but I have a soft spot for the chocolate and fruity variations as well.
This year’s holiday thumbprint recipe, Cherry Ginger Thumbprints Cookies, is a close runner-up.
Made with sour cherry preserves, sweet and spicy crystallized ginger, and golden shimmer sugar to make the cookies sparkle, they are just as lovely as they taste.
These thumbprint cookies will most certainly be at my cookie exchange this year. Maybe they’ll make it to yours as well!
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I absolutely love thumbprint cookies. I think my grandmother got me hooked on them at a very, very early age! These look amazing, Sommer!
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I’m a sucker for anything with ginger… but thumbprint cookies are my absolute favorite, so I’m just digging these!
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Sommer, these cookies are undeniably crown jewels. Yours words paint a lovely setting of all the things to cherish surrounding the baking of holiday cookies, however, next to nibbling one of these beauties is how you’ve captured them in pixels. Brava!
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These are SO STUNNING – I love the crystallized ginger!
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I love thumbprint cookies! The more the merrier!
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Oh my word, lady! The ginger makes these a sure winner winner!
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These are gorgeous!
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Crown jewel, indeed. Love that sparkly jewel-ness of the ginger! We’re “stealing” this idea for sure!
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What lovely cookies..and I agree no less that cookies = happiness!
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These are really beautiful.
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cookies = happiness. especially these ones!
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These are beautiful! I have my cookie exchange cookies baking now…if they don’t turn out I am happy to know that your recipe will be my back up! I will have to make these to have around the house when company stops by in the coming weeks.
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I love thumbprint cookies, these are beautiful!
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Wow! You always have the most delectable treats! These cookies are creative and simply gorgeous!!
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What is it about that one baking day every year that is full of so much excitement! I love it! And that ginger in these – looks amazing!
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love these Sommer! I saw and pinned them this morning and couldn’t wait to come back and leave you a comment
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What gorgeous cookies! I could see why they’re a runner-up. I bet the ginger and cherry flavors go so well together!
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These cookies are just lovely!
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I’ve never see thumbprint cookies done this way, with crystallized ginger over top. It’s brilliant.
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I’ve never had a thumbprint cookie I didn’t like! I’m sure this would fit right in :)
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Not a fan of crystallized ginger, but these are so pretty!
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Sweet Sommer, those thumbprint cookies look sooooo delightful! Loving the crystallized ginger on top :)
HUGS <3
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I love thumb print cookies and these sounds wonderful. Truly love the flavor combination.
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I love the manner how you had done thump print. Cookies is delicious. Would be waiting for more good stuffs.
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Those are so lovely and perfect, Sommer. I do love Christmas cookies.
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How pretty are these? What a gorgeous (and yummy-looking) combination.
I love love love cookie baking day too. I always forget though how much work it is! I collapse into bed exhausted (and happy, and full)! Always worth it.
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These are my kind of cookies! Love cherry and love ginger :)
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These are too adorable!
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Oh, I love crystallized ginger! These are just gorgeous, Sommer!
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How pretty Sommer – the crystallized ginger is a nice tough!
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I’ve always loved thumbprint cookies, the jam filling is perfect with the buttery cookie and the ginger is a nice spicy touch!
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Thumbprint cookies are so good, why haven’t I ever made them? Now I must!
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These look so delightful. I adore thumbprint cookies!
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These look divine! Using crystallized ginger with cherry preserves is a brilliant idea! Another must try cookie recipe from you, thanks so much!
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