Almond Butter Cookies
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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40 small cookies
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄2 teaspoon almond extract
- 3 1⁄3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
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GLAZE
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 1⁄4 teaspoon almond extract
- 4 tablespoons milk (give or take)
- maraschino cherry, quartered (optional)
directions
- Cream sugar, butter, and cream cheese until fluffy.
- Beat in the egg, vanilla, and almond extract until smooth.
- Stir together the flour and baking powder in a seperate bowl.
- Stir the flour into the creamed mixture. Chill for 1-1.5 hours or until firm.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Roll the dough into small (1/2 teaspoon) balls with your hands, and press down to 1/8 '' with your fingers.
- Bake for 7-10 minutes, or until you notice that the bottom of the cookies are turning golden brown.
- Allow cookies to cool.
- Whisk together the icing sugar, butter and almond extract until smooth.
- Add small amounts of milk until the glaze is spreadable.
- Drop small amounts of the glaze onto the center of each cookie.
- If you want, you can place a quartered marashino cherry in the middle of each cookie as well to garnish.
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Reviews
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One of my favorite butter cookie recipes, and I'm glad to see it on Recipezaar! I divide the dough into two parts and add green food coloring to one part. Then roll out the dough and use a small star cookie cutter for the green dough and a large star for the plain dough. Put the large plain star on the cookie sheet, top it with the smaller green star, then bake about 8-10 minutes (or until done). Then apply glaze if desired.
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Very nice cookies! I love the cream cheese in them, and the almond-lovers in my family especially love these! I did make them a little bigger than indicated, probably using about a teaspoon of dough per cookie, and didn't flatten them or use the glaze. I ended up with 66 light cookies with a nice flavor that aren't too sweet or heavy. Thanks!
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I've always loved cooking. It started with baking cookies with mom, and became sort of a passion of mine. My grandparents are from India, so I love lots of ethnic foods. I modify tons of recipes to suit my tastes (i loooove spicy!) and i hope you like them too!