Magic Carpet Cookies
Ready In: 30 mins
Yields: 60 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 3 teaspoons almonds or 3 teaspoons vanilla flavoring
- 2 2⁄3 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
Directions
- Heat oven to 375.
- Cream together butter, sugar, egg, flavoring.
- Stir dry ingredients together; blend in.
- Reserve 1/2 of dough; roll the rest into 2 rectangles, 12" x 6".
- Cut rectangles lengthwise into 3 strips.
- Lift each strip carefully onto ungreased baking sheet.
- Put reserve dough into cookie press.
- Using smallest star design, press a long rope down each side of each strip, and one down the center.
- Bake 10 minutes, until edges are light brown.
- When cookies are cool, fill between the rows with different colored jellies or icing.
- cut cookies into 1" diagonal pieces.
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