1986 Winner: Almond Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients : 1986 Winner: Almond Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
COOKIES
2 cups Sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 cup Sugar
1/4 tsp Salt
1 cup Butter
3/4 cup Grated unblanched almonds
2 tsp Vanilla
FROSTING
6 tbsp Butter
1/3 cup Half-and-half
2/3 cup Packed brown sugar
2 cups Confectioners' sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla
Chopped pistachio nuts
For garnish
Preparation time: 45 minutes Baking time: 16 minutes
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. For cookies, sift flour, sugar and salt
into bowl. Cut in 1 cup butter with pastry blender until mixture
resembles coarse crumbs. Blend in almonds and vanilla. Work mixture with
fingers until a ball of dough is formed. Then shape into 1-inch balls.
2. Place balls on greased cookie sheets; make a depression in center of
each cookie. Bake about 8 minutes; remove from oven. Dent again and bake
about 8 minutes longer; cool. 3. For frosting, blend 6 tablespoons
butter, half-and-half and brown sugar in saucepan. Boil 2 minutes,
stirring constantly; remove from heat. Cool about 15 minutes, then stir
in confectioners' sugar and vanilla. Beat until smooth and thick. 4.
Fill depressions in cookies with butterscotch frosting and sprinkle
frosting with nuts. Winner Penney L. Haney of Kenosha described these
cookies: "Oh, the aroma! Dad knew his 'girls' had been baking as soon as
he stepped in the back door, brushing snowflakes from his coat. He warmed
his hands over the hot oven, slowly recovering feeling in his fingertips,
numb from stringing red, yellow, blue, green and white lights in the pines
in the yard. His chore and our special treat combined each year to mark
the beginning of our holiday preparations. "While chatting to Mom about
trying to locate the single, burned-out bulb that had kept an entire
strand out, he watched me, his tiny daughter, with not so dexterous
fingers, shaping dough into big marbles. I had to kneel on a wooden chair
to reach the table, with Mom's brightly-colored apron wrapped around me
nearly twice, held together in back by a giant safety pin." from the
Chicago Tribune annual Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 4, 1986
Converted by MC_Buster.
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