ALMOND COOKIES

 

Ingredients:

1 cup softened butter or margarine (or half that, half shortening)

¾ cup sugar

1 egg, slightly beaten

1 tsp almond extract

Optional: ½ tsp vanilla extract

2 ¾ cup flour

½ tsp baking soda

Extra sugar for flattening

Optional: Almonds or walnuts for topping

Directions

Cream butter or margarine (and shortening if using) with sugar in mixer. Mix in the egg, then the extracts, then slowly the flour and baking soda.

Shape dough into ¾” balls and place on lightly greased cookie sheet. Dip the bottom of a glass into the extra sugar and use it to flatten each ball (redip as needed or for each ball). If desired, top each cookie with a nut, pressing it in lightly to make it stay.

Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes, or until edges are just starting to show color.

Recipe from Reddits Best Family Recipes. OP stated-My grandmother used to have these lovely little almond cookies on hand whenever we were coming to visit -- and often kept some in the freezer, because my grandfather really liked snacking on them and they're also delicious frozen. She devised the sugared-glass-flattening method herself -- a reinvention of the wheel, but one she was pleased with that works quite well and leaves the edges a bit decoratively rough. They're deceptively unassuming-looking cookies but simply wonderful.