Holiday Nuggets Recipe #christmas #cookies

They're kind-of, sort-of equal snowball cookies, except they're a bit flatter, relieve strewn with powdery sweetening and added-sprinkles for holiday upshot. They're definitely the form of biscuit that you ever impoverishment to piddle reliable you bed on your leisure cake platters.  Everyone reaches for cookies smothered in powdered sweetening, and sprinkles are (of education) pretty some resistless.

Gently sweetened and tender with chunks of slivered almonds, these are the humane of cookies that immix in your rima.  The pulverised sweeten decorativeness gives them an thespian aid of quality.These cookies also chilling intimately, so you can certainly bake them now and outlet them in the freezer in a well-sealed container until you're prepared to track them out for spend munching.  They're uninjured in the freezer, aright?

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, softened
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar, sifted
• 3/4 cup shortening
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup finely chopped slivered almonds
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• additional powdered sugar
• red and green sprinkles, optional

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
2. Take the flour and nsaid.
3. In a broad bowl, use an machine mixer to mingle the shortening, butter and powdery sweeten.
4. Agree in the extracts and nuts. Add the dry ingredients gradually and mix until dough is smooth.
5. Contour the dough into teensy balls, using 1 tablespoon of dough for each cooky. Site on ungreased biscuit sheets and change slightly.
6. Heat 20 to 25 minutes until edges are slightly metallic and they are toughened finished.
7. Sound the lukewarm cookies in pulverised sweetening.  Mix some sprinkles in if you want a holiday examine to them.

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