Recipe of the Week! Shamrock Cookies

With St. Patrick's Day right around the corner, what a fun way to feel a little lucky! Send some treats home with a friend, or if you didn't want to bake at all... Call Paulette. She can set you up with some yummy cookies sure to please.

Turn THIS:

Into THIS!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter softened
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon no-color almond extract
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Kelly Green Icing Color
  

Makes: Each cookie serves 1.

instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.

2. In large mixing bowl, cream butter with sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add in egg, vanilla and almond extracts. Mix flour, baking powder and salt; add 1 cup at a time to butter mixture, mixing after each addition. Stir in Green Food Coloring to desired shade of 'Luckiness'...

3. Do not chill dough.

4. Divide dough into 2 balls. On a floured surface, roll each ball into a circle approximately 12 in. wide and 1/8 in. thick. Dip cookie cutter in flour before each use.

5. Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet on top rack of oven for 6-7 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned.

6. Cool on rack. Frost as desired.

Recipe may be doubled.