Wilton Butter Press Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups real butter, softened (no substitute)
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder

Preparation

Preheat oven to 400\u00b0F.
Thoroughly cream butter and sugar.
Add egg, milk, vanilla and almond extracts; beat well. Sift the flour and then measure by spooning the sifted flour into the measuring cup. (Using too much flour will make the dough too dense to come out the press. I have found out the hard way that sifting the flour is important!).
Stir together flour and baking powder; gradually add to creamed mixture, mixing to make a smooth dough.
DO NOT CHILL.
Place dough in cookie press and press cookies on to ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake for 6-8 minutes.
Remove cookies from sheet and cool on rack.
Makes 6 dozen cookies (but they're very small).