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Prep Time: 40 Minutes Cook Time: 14 Minutes |
Ready In: 54 Minutes Servings: 4 |
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I haven't tried it, but it looked good though. Ingredients:
3/4 cup butter (room temp) |
1 cup caster sugar |
1 egg |
2 1/2 cups flour |
1 pinch salt |
1 teaspoon almond essence or 1 teaspoon almond extract |
1 teaspoon vanilla essence or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract |
smarties candies or m&m's plain chocolate candy |
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 190°C.
2. Keep 5-6 ungreased cookie sheets on hand.
3. Beat the butter and sugar till fluffy and light.
4. Add the salt + vanilla essence + almond essence and beat for 30 seconds.
5. With a spatula mix in the beaten egg.
6. Put in all the flour in one go, and gather together to make a firm dough.
7. Chill for at least 30 minutes in wrap.
8. Roll out to 1/4 inch thickness and cut with assorted cookie cutters.
9. Decorate with Smarties (or M ‘n’ M’s), and silver dragees if desired.
10. Bake on ungreased cookie sheets for 12-14 minutes, watching closely so that they don’t get too brown.
11. Remove from oven; let the cookies lay on the sheet for a minute. Remove to racks to cool.
12. Note: You can flavour these with any other extract of your choice; or just leave them plain vanilla if you like. I think orange and lemon may work well with these, though I haven’t tried it myself.
13. Keep an eye on the cookies towards the end of the baking time. If you find a couple browning before others, remove them from the sheet onto cookie rack, and return remaining cookies on sheet to the oven.
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