nch thick.
Cut your cookies out and put them on
enter of 15 squares (such as letters and snowflakes). Place cookies on
br>In a large bowl of an electric mixer at medium
Cream butter; add sugar gradually, continuing to cream.
Add egg yolks, orange rind, nutmeg, vanilla, and brandy. Mix well.
Slowly add flour until mixture becomes a workable dough. Roll out and cut with Christmas cookie cutters, brush with egg white and decorate (sprinkles, almonds, nuts, etc.). If you sprinkle with brown sugar before baking they will sparkle!
Bake at 375-400\u00b0F for approximately 10 minutes.
alnuts and 1/4 cup of the flour until nuts are
b>COOKIES:
Put a spoonful of filling on the bottom of half of the cookies
utmeg. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with
sed to edge the vanilla cookies is really nice around the
For the cookies: Cream butter and sugar. Add
od print.
The amount of flour needed will depend
og into desired shape. Place cookies on the prepared baking sheet
end, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Add
Mix dry ingredients.
Cut in shortening.
Beat eggs and mix with vanilla and lemon extract.
Add to dry ingredients; mix well. Shape dough into 2 balls.
Put in refrigerator.
Chill 24 hours. Cut each ball in half.
Roll out to 1/8-inch.
Cut out with Christmas cookie cutters; only take out one ball of cookie dough at a time.
Leave rest in refrigerator.
Bake 6 to 8 minutes at 400\u00b0. Do not brown.
Decorate and ice for Christmas.
lour, baking soda, and cream of tartar; set aside.
In
owl, add a couple of drops of almond extract to the egg
Cream together first 4 ingredients.
Add vanilla, eggs and milk.
Mix.
Then add 7+ cups sifted flour.
Mix well.
Chill overnight.
Roll thin and cut cookies.
Bake about 10 minutes at 325\u00b0 on lightly greased cookie sheets.
Makes approximately 95 Christmas figure cookies.
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Top each with one of the remaining cookies; gently press cookies
Mix all the ingredients and then all the flour to make a medium stiff dough.
Let stand overnight in a cold place or refrigerator.
In the morning shape into 6 or 8 balls and roll out ball in rectangular shape and cut diagonally with spatula or fork shaped cookies.
Roll cookie dough thin for crisp cookies and roll thicker for soft cookies.
Mix 1 egg in small dish with fork.
Dip fork in beaten egg and make tine marks across top of each cookie. Place on cookie sheet and bake at 375\u00b0 for 8 to 10 minutes.
our.
Roll one portion of dough to 1/8 inch
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