Deep In The Heart Of Texas Sugar Cookies

Total Time: 37 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 7 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 12 brach's hard cinnamon candies, crushed
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract

Recipe

• 1 crush the hard candy fairly fine.
• 2 beat powdered sugar and butter.
• 3 mix in vanilla, almond extract and egg.
• 4 sift together flour, baking soda and cream of tartar. mix into creamed mixture.
• 5 cover and refrigerate about 2 hours or until firm.
• 6 tape (2) paint stir sticks, the width of your rolling pin, on to parchment paper. stir sticks gives you even thickness of about 1/8 inch thick.
• 7 tape the paper to your counter.
• 8 place a piece of dough on the paper, cover with another piece of parchment paper and roll.
• 9 if the dough sticks use powdered sugar on the rolling surface.
• 10 it is best not to get it on top of the cookie if you are going to glaze, because it makes the top of the cookie puffy where the sugar was.
• 11 use a 3 â½ inch texas shaped cookie cutter, then use a 1 inch heart shaped cutter.
• 12 place cookies on a foil lined cookie sheet.
• 13 spoon it in the heart spaces. use as much as you want, but not over the top of the texas shape cookie.
• 14 you can sprinkle the cookie with sugar before baking or may glaze after completely cooled.
• 15 bake at 375â° f for 7 to 8 minutes or until edges or golden.
• 16 let your stained glass cookies cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan.
• 17 cool completely before glazing.
• 18 glaze: mix all ingredients until smooth or desired brushing consistency.