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I’ve been yearning to put together some new holiday cookie recipes for a few weeks now. Anyone who knows anything about our modern family knows that we love a couple of things above all others: Our boys and our food.

Whenever we get the chance, we love mixing the two together here on Platter Talk, in our kitchen, and once in a while at an eating establishment. There is perhaps no better time to bring kids (or other family/friends) into the kitchen, than over the holiday season.

Holidays = Food = Family = Love = Fun. Or something like that. 

Ingredients

• Cocoa
• Cherry Pie Filling
• All-Purpose Flour
• Sugar
• Baking Powder, Baking Soda, and Salt
• Eggs
• Pure Vanilla Extract
• Chocolate Chips
• All the Love You Can Add

We live a busy life, in all likelihood just like you. If you’re really lucky, you have a hobby or pastime that you really enjoy. We are two working parents with half a baseball team worth of kids,  For us, one of those “side pleasures” involves food. Preparing it, sharing it, and teaching our kids about it, perhaps it’s a family tradition.

This recipe for Cherry Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies comes from another part of our family, our foodie family. Over the past few years, we’ve joined kitchens with some other food bloggers and it has been a great experience on many levels. We have gotten to know many talented folks and like our family at home, they have a great passion for food.  That’s where this recipe comes into play.

Every few months or so, a few of us “virtual foodie friends” get together and recreate a recipe from someone within our group. This month, we had the privilege of being paired with a couple of super-moms who also happen to run a stellar food website on the side. Their site is aptly named Who Needs a Cape? and clearly, they do very well without any such thing. Our task was to recreate a recipe from their site and with a little rearrangement of words, we chose their Chocolate Cherry Thumbprint Cookies.

It never ceases to amaze me how food brings people together and now thanks to the digital world in which we live, this phenomenon occurs, even virtually. These cookies that came from friends we have never even met are a perfect example of the point I’m trying to make.

If kitchen creations can have this effect on people who have never met in person, just imagine the experiences that can be created in your own kitchen with those you love. Try this wonderful treat this holiday season and find out exactly what we mean.

Other easy cookie recipes

• Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Soft Pumpkin Cookies