Short Bread Cookies

     Here is another fun Christmas cookie recipe that won the hearts of my co-workers last year. It is great to have children help with this one.

Happy Baking and Happy Shopping!

Short Bread Cookies

Ingredients:

3 cups of all- purpose flour (a little extra for dusting)

½ cup of corn starch

¼ tea spoon of course salt

1 tea spoon of vanilla extract

1 cup of confectioner sugar

3 and ½ sticks of unsalted butter

1 hand full of Turbinado Sugar (sugar in the raw) for sprinkling on top of cookies

6 to 7 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate

Home-made Holiday Treats!

 It's Cookie Time!

      For the few that read my blog, I appologize for the lack of postings lately. With the holidays so close by, I have been busy with the usual Holiday shopping and gift wrapping.

     I hope you are all almost done with the gift buying, but should you want to continue the holiday cheer with some "holiday treats", why not bake some yourself. A plate a cookies is always welcome to any celebration and nothing says "Love" like home-made cookies.

Here is a recipe that is easy and yummy. Please enjoy!

Happy Baking and Happy Shopping!

Simple Almond Cookies

Ingredients:

For the cookie:

10 ounces (2 ½ sticks) unsalted butter

¾ cup of sugar

1 teaspoon of almond extract

2 cups of all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon of baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

Handful of Turbinado Sugar (Sugar in the raw)

For the glaze:

1 ½ powder sugar

1 teaspoon almond extract

4-5 teaspoons of water

Sliced almonds