Smartie Cookies

I haven't tried it, but it looked good though.

• Ready In: 54 mins
• Yields: 8-9 dozen

Ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup butter (room temp)
• 1  cup caster sugar
• 1  egg
• 2 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1  pinch salt
• 1  teaspoon  almond essence or 1  teaspoon  almond extract
• 1  teaspoon vanilla essence or 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
•  smarties candies or   M&M's plain chocolate candy

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C.
2. Keep 5-6 ungreased cookie sheets on hand.
3. Beat the butter and sugar till fluffy and light.
4. Add the salt + vanilla essence + almond essence and beat for 30 seconds.
5. With a spatula mix in the beaten egg.
6. Put in all the flour in one go, and gather together to make a firm dough.
7. Chill for at least 30 minutes in wrap.
8. Roll out to ¼ inch thickness and cut with assorted cookie cutters.
9. Decorate with Smarties (or M ‘n’ M’s), and silver dragees if desired.
10. Bake on ungreased cookie sheets for 12-14 minutes, watching closely so that they don’t get too brown.
11. Remove from oven; let the cookies lay on the sheet for a minute. Remove to racks to cool.
12. Note: You can flavour these with any other extract of your choice; or just leave them plain vanilla if you like. I think orange and lemon may work well with these, though I haven’t tried it myself.
13. Keep an eye on the cookies towards the end of the baking time. If you find a couple browning before others, remove them from the sheet onto cookie rack, and return remaining cookies on sheet to the oven.