Cookie-press cookies (m stewart)

36 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 Sticks unsalted butter; at room temperature, (1 1/2 cups)
1 cup Sugar
2 Eggs; separated
3¾ cup All-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon Vanilla extract
Chopped nuts
Colored sugar
Multicolored candies

Directions

MAKES 2 TO 3 DOZEN

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, flour, salt, and vanilla. Mix well.

Fill cookie press with dough and shape fancy cookies on an ungreased baking sheet. Brush the top of each cookie with the egg whites, beaten slightly with a little water. Decorate or leave plain.

Bake in a preheated 4OO degree oven until the cookies are golden brown on top and done throughout. Test one. Thin cookies take 5 to 6 minutes; thick ones 8 to 15 minutes. Cool slightly, then remove with spatula. When cool, store in airtight container.

Source: Christmas Memories with Recipes, Edited by Maron Waxman, 1988 MC_Busted and edited for MC by Brenda Adams<adamsfmle@...> Notes: Martha says that this is a very good buttery dough for the cookie press. "I especially like to make Christmas-tree shaped cookies or star- or heart-shaped cookies. Sometimes I will stick two cookies together with melted chocolate."

Recipe by: Martha Kostyra Stewart - family recipe Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #965 by Badams <adamsfmle@...> on Dec 18, 1997

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