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Let me start by saying that baking sweets has never been my strong suit in the kitchen. My girlfriend is a far better baker than I am. So, when we at Slashfood decided to do cookies for Valentine's Day, I went to my better half much like a child to their parents the day before the science fair. What we came up with, were these jam-filled thumbprint cookies, adapted from The All New Joy of Cooking. I say adapted because the version in the book is reduced fat, and we didn't want that. I also upped the amount of lemon zest in the dough, as the jam we used (Smucker's seedless raspberry) was quite sweet. One final adaptation is to toast the slivered almonds in a dry pan before sprinkling them onto the unbaked cookies. I thought of this after-the-fact, when I noticed that the almonds didn't have much crunch or flavor to them. All in all, these cookies are very simple and quite pretty. They're tempting to eat while still hot from the oven, but watch out for the molten jam. You've been warned.