Raspberry thumbprint cookies are a perfect dessert for Valentine's Day, Christmas or any time of year! Learn how to make these thumbprint cookies with icing, including the best time to add jam to your cookies. Should you add jam before, during or after baking? I'm sharing my results for this classic cookie recipe.

A tried-and-true family recipe with the perfect cookie dough base filled with fruit jam or preserves.

Melt-in-your-mouth, traditional Strawberry Jam Cookies (thumbprints) that are sweet and buttery, with a soft, jammy center and lemony glaze.

This old fashioned recipe for Thumbprint Cookies with Icing comes from Grandma's recipe book. They're lightly sweet and perfect with coffee.

Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies are buttery, crisp yet tender and simply melts in your mouth. They are an all-time favorite cookie recipe, and are popular, especially during the holiday season.

Light, buttery, almond flavored shortbread thumbprint cookies have been the most requested cookie I make for almost as long as I can remember.

Delicious Raspberry and Almond Shortbread Thumbprints Cookies - Shortbread thumbprint cookie filled with raspberry jam, and drizzled with glaze.

This Christmas dessert idea is a classic! Light and buttery with jelly centers, these easy Christmas cookies are always a favorite holiday baking recipe. No one will be able to resist The BEST Jam Thumbprint Cookies!

Raspberry jam may taste good on toast, but it's sooo much better in a cookie! Our raspberry thumprint cookies recipe features the flavors of raspberry and almond in every handheld treat. Oh, and did we mention the drizzled almond glaze?