Holiday Butter Cookies
Recipe Ingredients:
| 1/2 | cup | butter, softened |
| 1/2 | cup | margarine, softened |
| 3/4 | cup | sugar |
| 1 | egg | |
| food coloring | ||
| 2 1/4 | cup | all-purpose flour |
| 1/4 | tsp | baking powder |
| 1/8 | tsp | salt |
| 1 | tsp | almond extract |
| colored sugar crystals | ||
| a cookie press (optional) |
Recipe Instructions:
| 1. | Preheat oven to 375F. |
| 2. | Use an electric mixer to cream the butter and margarine together until fluffy. Gradually beat in the sugar. |
| 3. | Add the egg and a few drops of food coloring (red for Valentine's Day, green for Christmas Trees, etc.) and mix well. |
| 4. | Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together. Add half of the flour mixture to the butter mixture and blend until smooth. Repeat with the rest of the flour mixture. |
| 5. | Fill a cookie press with dough and select any cookie disc. Form the cookies on ungreased cookie sheets. Decorate with colored sugar crystals. |
| 6. | Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from cookie sheets and cool on wire racks. Yields about 6 to 7 dozen. |
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