shamrock cookies, mom's

Name: Shamrock Cookies, Mom's
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup(s) butter; 1/2 cup(s) sugar; 1/2 teaspoon(s) vanilla; 1 cup(s) ground almonds; 1 - batch icing; 1 - container green decorating sugar; 2 cup(s) flour

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Megan Stewart

Middletown, OH

Updated on Jul 22, 2018

Mom made the holidays special, even making these shamrock cookies!

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yield about 4 dozen cookies

Ingredients

1 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup ground almonds
1 - batch icing
1 - container green decorating sugar
2 cups flour

How To Make shamrock cookies, mom's

Step 1

Cream butter, sugar and vanilla. Add flour and almonds, mix well. Chill 1 hour. Roll small portions at a time until thin, cut with shamrock cookie cutter. Bake at 400 degrees 10 min. Cool, frost with icing and dip in sugar.

Step 2

For the icing, blend 1 c powdered sugar with 1/8 teaspoon peppermint flavoring or oil of cinnamon, 2 T water and a drop of green food coloring.
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