Cookies Around The World 4 Of 5

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, softened
• 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup favorite jelly
• 1/4 cup colored crystal sugar (optional)
• 1/4 cup finely chopped nuts (optional)
• 1 teaspoon orange zest
• 1 egg , slightly beaten
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 12 candied red cherries
• 12 green glazed cherries or 12 citron

Recipe

• 1 basic cookie dough:.
• 2 cream butter and sugar.
• 3 beat in egg and vanilla.
• 4 add flour slowly, and mix well.
• 5 divide in two.
• 6 swedish ruby drops.
• 7 use 1/2 cookie dough.
• 8 preheat oven to 375.
• 9 shape cookie dough by rounded teaspoon into balls.
• 10 balls can be rolled in colored sugar or dip in slightly beaten egg and roll in finely chopped nuts.
• 11 place 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheet.
• 12 press thumb deeply into center of each.
• 13 bake 10-12 minutes or until set but not brown.
• 14 fill thumbprint with jelly.
• 15 norwegian wreaths.
• 16 preheat oven to 375.
• 17 mix into 1/2 basic dough- orange peel.
• 18 shape dough by rounded teaspoonfulls into pencil-like strips about 5 inches long.
• 19 form strip into a circle, overlapping 1/2 inch at each end.
• 20 brush tops with slightly beaten egg .
• 21 sprinkle with granulated sugar.
• 22 press bits of red cherries on center of overlap for berries.
• 23 add leaves chopped from green cherries.
• 24 bake on ungreased baking sheet 8-10 minutes until set but not brown.
• 25 immediately remove from baking sheet.