After handing in my last final in December during my senior year of college, I biked back to my apartment, sprawled out on my sofa, and watched a movie on my laptop because I had zero energy for going out to celebrate. Towards the end of the chick flick, a thought popped into my head.
I have so much free time now that classes are over… I’m going to spend it baking!
That night, I sketched out a plan for my kitchen adventure. I decided to mix up a holiday treat every day from then until Christmas Eve, and as much as I wanted it to feel like a true homemade advent calendar… The next day was December 10. So instead of a full 24 days, I ended up with just 14.
But that didn’t stop me! In the following days, I started with a few of easier recipes, like homemade dark chocolate peppermint bark and peanut butter blossoms. Then I moved on to raspberry jam stripe cookies, chocolate crinkle cookies, and classic drop-style sugar cookies.
Because I definitely didn’t want to eat 28 dozen treats all by myself (and then try to burn off all those cookie calories!), I dropped off many plates of the treats in the office next to the chemistry lab where I worked on campus. The sweets always disappeared in seconds with so many hungry graduate students around, and nearly everyone agreed that the dainty bite-sized thumbprint cookies were their favorites.
This year, I decided to take a detour from my classic thumbprint cookies recipe… And instead, I added a little extra holiday flavor, which resulted in these Healthy Gingerbread Thumbprint Cookies!
They’re soft and chewy with sweet jam centers, and the fruit flavor pairs actually pairs really well with the rich and cozy spices of the soft gingerbread cookies. Even better? They’re just 42 calories!
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