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While sugar cookies are delicious in their own right, sometime they need a little extra pizazz to make them special. These thumb print sugar cookies fit that bill.  All the tasty flavor of a normal sugar cookie, with a little extra texture and flavor added. Typically most people use apricot or raspberry as the filling, but I am partial to strawberry jam myself!

Everyone knows sugar is not the best thing in the world for you. Fortunately, there are natural sweeteners that are healthy  alternatives to refined sugar.  If you’ve ever wondered about what sugar does in your cookies, or what kind of substitutes you can use for it, then this is a must read.

Now, I will tell you I love mint anything. Mint gum, peppermints, candy canes, etc. Chocolate and mint is by far  one of my favorite combinations out there.  A few years ago, I stumbled upon Andes mint baking chips.  And thus was born Mint Chocolate Cookies!!!  So scrumptious and tasty, I can never stop with just 1 cookie.

What good is a cookie blog without the best cookie out there, the chocolate chip cookie! There is nothing tastier than fresh out of the oven chocolate chip cookies.
It is a staple in my kitchen and I rarely go a month with out baking these delicious cookies.
I use the Nestles Toll house recipe with just a few modifications. I prefer the mini chips because it makes the cookies more chocolaty