Basic Vanilla Cookie Dough

This recipe is great, I just added 1-cup roughly chopped pecans and 1 cup raw oatmeal and just added drops on to the baking sheets same time of cooking and are very delicious!!

These dough recipes make a crunchy cookie, more hard than tender, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Beware: the proportion of sugar is so high that the cookies can become overdone and burnt VERY quickly, so you must keep an eye on them in the oven. I had to toss a few (or a MANY) charred cookies from each batch before I got the timing down.

These cookies are SO DRY. I tried to use it for thumbprints as suggested and half of them just broke into pieces because the dough was so dry. I would not suggest this recipe ESPECIALLY for thumbprints.

Any clue on what temperature to cook these at and for how long?

Going traditional this Christmas & Martha's helping me the whole way.