Description
When I was little I used to live next to a Greek family, who would make these cookies year round, and give tins of them to neighbors around Christmas.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup confectioners’ sugar for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
- In a medium bowl
- cream together the butter
- sugar and egg until smooth. Stir in the vanilla and almond extracts. Blend in the flour to form a dough. you may have to knead by hand at the end. Take about a teaspoon of dough at a time and roll into balls
- logs or ‘S’ shapes. Place cookies 1 to 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets.
- Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven
- or until lightly browned and firm. Allow cookies to cool completely before dusting with confectioners’ sugar.
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 20 mins
Servings: 48