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Nonna's Thumbprint Cookies

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Nonna's Thumbprint Cookies                                    Today we made Nonna’s Thumbprint Cookies. My mom started making these when the Grandkids were little. She had first tasted these at a friend's house and so began the tradition. When my children were little we would make the trip up North for Christmases but after a few years of treacherous weather we had decided to stop going. The past decade my mom has been making her way to spend Christmas with us. She would spend a bit of time with each sibling. She always arrived with a suitcase full of goodies- ice sugar donuts, ciambellas, amaretti and these cookies just to name a few.  They have become another tradition that my siblings and I have passed down to our children. My girls would help Nonna bake them when she was here. In Grade 4 my oldest daughter’s class put together a traditional Christmas Cookbook in which each student shared one recipe that has been passed down. She chose this one. We still have that book ( it