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Butter Cookies (Key Recipe) Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cup soft butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
3 tsp flavoring (vanilla, lemon, etc)
3 cups sifted flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
Almond or pecan halves
Directions:
Directions:
Mix butter, sugar and egg together thoroughly. Stir in flavoring. Sift flour and baking powder together and stir in. Chill dough. Roll very thin (1/16"). Cut into desired shapes. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Press blanched almond or pecan half into top of each cookie. If glazed cookie is desired, brush mixture of 1 egg yolk and 2 tbsp water over top of cookies before baking. Bake until delicately browned, at 425º for 5 - 7 minutes. Makes 7 dozen 2" cookies.
COOKIES FOR PARTIES: Follow above recipe, cut and decorate as follows:
HEART COOKIES: Cut with heart shaped cutter. Brush lightly with a little beaten egg white, then sprinkle with red sugar. Bake. Cut round cookies, place a tiny red candy heart in center of each. Bake. Cut dough with two heart shaped cutters, one smaller than the other. Lay a smaller heart on each of the larger ones and bake as one cookie. When baked, ice the smaller heart with red or pink icing.
FLOWER COOKIES: Color dough pink or yellow. Cut cookies with scalloped cutters, for petal effect. Brush with egg white and sprinkle with pink or yellow sugar before baking. Bits of candied orange peel or yellow gum drops may be used for centers.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
7 dozen

 

 

 

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