Melt-In-Ya-Mouth Swedish Butter Cookies

delicous cookie to use in a press or with a cookie cutter. taste like the cookies you buy at christmas!

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Yields: 8 dozen

Ingredients

• 2  cups  sifted all-purpose flour
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 2  egg yolks
• 1  cup butter
• 1  teaspoon  almond extract or 1  teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. Sift flour and sugar into a bowl.
2. Mix the egg yolks, butter and extract in separate bowl.
3. Slowly add flour and sugar a bit a time, mixing the mixture with your fingertips.
4. Fource dough through a press or roll balls and flatten or make snakes (whatever you wish) onto grease trays.
5. Bake in a moderate oven (180C/350F) for 8 to 10 minutes.
6. Keep in air-tight container.