Italian Almond-Iced Christmas Cookies
Source of Recipe
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List of Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon pure almond extract
Icing
2 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon egg white
1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
1/4 teaspoon pure almond extract
2 colors of food coloring -- of your choiceRecipe
Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter 2 sheet pans.
Mix the flour, baking powder, and salt together.
Mix the eggs and sugar in a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or
using
a hand mixer) until pale yellow and fluffy. With the mixer running,
drizzle
in the oil, vanilla, and almond extract, and mix.
Add the dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface. Using your
hands,
form into logs 1 inch in diameter. Working in batches if necessary,
cut into
3/4-inch thick slices and arrange the cookies on the sheet pans. Bake
until
light golden brown, 12 to 15 minutes. Let cool on wire racks.
Make the icing: Whisk the milk, egg white, confectioners' sugar, and
almond
extract together until smooth. Divide the icing into one large and two
smaller batches. Leave the large batch of icing white. Color the two
small
batches to your liking.
When the cookies are cool, dip the tops into the white icing.
To drizzle the cookies with the other colors, dip the tines of a fork
into
the icing and wave it over the cookies. Let set in a cool place 1
hour.
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