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Butter Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2½ c. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp. salt
1 c (2 sticks) butter, softened
½ c. sugar
1 egg
½ tsp. vanilla extract
¼ tsp. almond extract (optional)
Powdered sugar for sprinkling
Directions:
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350º.
In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
In a large bowl, beat together butter, sugar, and egg until light and fluffy. Add flour mixture to butter mixture and mix until well blended. Add vanilla and almond (optional) extracts and mix well.
With you hands, form dough (about ½ Tbsp.) at a time, into balls, crescents or S-shapes.
Place Cookies 2in. apart on cookie sheet. Put on middle oven rack and bake 15-18 min. or until barely brown around the edges.
Remove from cookie sheet with a spatula and cool on a wire rack for 5 min.
With a flour sifter, sift powdered sugar over cookies.
ENJOY!!
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
From Middle school Econ class.

Butter cookies are popular yar round in Greece. At Christmas time they are topped with whole cloves to symbolize the spices brought by the wise men.

 

 

 

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