Danish Cookie Rings
Recipe Ingredients:
| 1/2 | cup | blanched almonds |
| 2 | cup | all purpose flour |
| 3/4 | cup | sugar |
| 1/4 | tsp | baking powder |
| 1 | cup | butter, cut into small pieces |
| 1 | egg | |
| 1 | Tbsp | milk |
| 1 | Tbsp | vanilla |
| 16 | candied green cherries, cut into halves | |
| 8 | candied red cherries, cut into halves |
Recipe Instructions:
| 1. | Grease cookie sheets; set aside. Process almonds in food processor until ground, but not pasty. |
| 2. | Place almonds, flour, sugar and baking powder in large bowl. Cut butter into flour mixture with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture is crumbly. |
| 3. | Beat egg, milk and vanilla in small bowl with fork until well blended. Add egg mixture to flour mixture; stir until soft dough forms. |
| 4. | Spoon dough into pastry bag fitted with medium star tip. Pipe 3-inch rings 2 inches apart onto prepared cookie sheets. Refrigerate rings 15 minutes or until firm. |
| 5. | Preheat oven to 375F. Cut each green cherry half into 4 slivers. Cut each red cherry half into quarters. Press red cherry quarter onto each ring where ends meet. Arrange 2 green cherry slivers on either side of red cherry to form leaves. |
| 6. | Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until golden. Remove cookies to wire racks; cool completely. Makes 5 dozen. |
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