WREATH COOKIE PRESS COOKIES

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Categories     Cookies     Christmas     Kid-Friendly

Yield 5 dozen per batch

Number Of Ingredients 10

1 cup Butter, softened but still cold
1/2 cup sugar
3 cups light cake flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 egg
3 teaspoons lemon extract
3 teaspoons almond extract
1/4 teaspoon green food coloring
red hot candies (1 bag)
green decorator sugar (lots)

Steps:

  • Cream butter and sugar. Slowly add flour and baking powder alternating with egg and flavorings. Mix in green food coloring. Split batch into 4 parts, wrap each in plastic and refridgerate. When ready to form cookies: Heat oven to 400 degrees. Remove one part of dough and warm to room tempature. Fill a cookie press. Use the star plate to form dough into a long thin piece of dough. Allow dough to sprial slightly as it leaves the cookie press. Make 2 inch diameter, circle shaped cookies and press ends together with finger. Form cookies closely together as they will not spread. Cover the entire cookie sheet. Place two red hots on the pressed ends of each cookie...slightly press into dough. Using small measuring spoon, fill sprial edges of cookies with green decorator sugar. Use lots of sugar as much as possible - sugar will stick to formed cookie dough as it warms. After entire sheet of cookies is covered with sugar, lightly tap to remove excess sugar from cookie sheet (save and reuse). Bake cookies until just set. Usually 6 minutes. Watch them carefully. Cookies are done when set, but redhots are not melted. Bake one sheet at a time.

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