TWD: Thumbprints for Us Big Guys

I wasn't sure if I was going to make it on this one.  I haven't been feeling too good lately, and I was a little skeptical that I would feel up to making these this week. But after some encouragement (read "get off your butt, honey"), I got up and made these.

This week's Tuesday with Dorie was chosen by Mike of Ugly Food Dude. Check out his site for the recipe.


I've never made thumbprints before because I just didn't like them that much. I considered them okay, but all I ever really liked about them was the jam. The more jam the better.

So for my first try at thumbprints, I was pretty set on making a deep, wide hole to fill with jam. But I failed. The centers puffed up in the baking, and the ridges of the hole totally sunk down to barely nothing. So sad. But like I said before, I wasn't feeling so hot, so these were just going to have to do.

I decided to forgo the powdered sugar dusting, simply because I didn't feel like the extra mess. I went with two different jams for the filling: classic raspberry jam and fig jam. I really love raspberry anything and probably would have filled all of them with that jam, if I had had enough. But since I didn't, I branched out with fig jam, which I think gives it good variety.

I haven't actually tried these yet (I just made them, and I wanted them to set up a bit) but I'm sure they're good. Dorie's recipes just about always are. She's good like that. :)

So if you've got a little time, give these a shot, and don't forget to check out what the other TWDers are baking!