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Classic Christmas Butter Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cups butter
1 ½ cups sugar
3 eggs
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons almond extract
5 cups flour
Directions:
Directions:
Cream butter, sugar, eggs with electric beater; add dry ingredients and everything else... you know how to do this.

Use a cookie press to squirt out perfectly sized, festive cookies. Tip: make sure your cookie pan is cool. They won't stick to warm pan. I top with Christmas sugars/sprinkles.

Bake at 400º for 10 minutes or so and keep an eye on it.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
My mother used to make these--and called them "ribbon cookies"; She used an old-timey cookie press that had a hand crank; Like a giant screw that you turn...She would use the skinny zig-zag shape, and then crank the dough out in one long ribbon; I have not found a way to do this with the newer cookie press that has a level type function... so if you have the old one that your crank/turn...you can make these in no time at all! Just cut into cookie size as soon as they come out of the oven.

I have been bringing these every year to the cookie party. The recipe makes SO MANY cookies. And they taste like Christmas.

 

 

 

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