First Post Celebration {I Made Cookies!}

I've never started a blog before, but I have always wanted a place to put all my ideas and record all of my successes and failures {which there tend to be A LOT of.} I enjoy cooking and baking so many of my posts will involve food, but I will branch out with other things as I try and find my way as a housewife and mother. To celebrate the beginning of this new adventure I thought I'd share one of my cooking successes from today.
I've been trying to find an easy way to use up the leftover cranberry-orange sauce I made from thanksgiving. I figured it only had a shelf life of 2 weeks and I NEEDED to use it up soon. I came across this thumbprint cookie recipe from The Mommy Dialogues and thought it would be a perfect!

I basically just followed the recipe: butter, eggs, sugar and flour, but I also added a tiny bit of orange extract to the dough. It complimented the orange in the cranberry sauce nicely, obviously if you are using another filling substitute the orange extract or omit it all together. This recipe is really adaptable, find what suits your taste!

I was able to use up every bit of the cranberry sauce which worked out nicely! I baked mine for only 10 minutes since my oven runs a little hot. Luckily I was watching them because I almost burnt the first batch! {I can't stress how important it is to get to know your oven.}

They were divine once cooled, but honestly I couldn't wait and I may have burnt my tongue a little. But trust me, I am not complaining!
These thumbprint cookies took me about 30 minutes to throw together and they will definitely be making it into my holiday recipes. I always love when I can find new ways to use leftovers, and I might just start making cranberry sauce more than once a year now!