Almond Butter Cookies

Total Time: 2 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 50 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 3 1/3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 cups icing sugar
• 2 tablespoons melted butter
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
• 4 tablespoons milk (give or take)
• maraschino cherry, quartered (optional)

Recipe

• 1 cream sugar, butter, and cream cheese until fluffy.
• 2 beat in the egg, vanilla, and almond extract until smooth.
• 3 stir together the flour and baking powder in a seperate bowl.
• 4 stir the flour into the creamed mixture. chill for 1-1.5 hours or until firm.
• 5 preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• 6 roll the dough into small (1/2 teaspoon) balls with your hands, and press down to 1/8 '' with your fingers.
• 7 bake for 7-10 minutes, or until you notice that the bottom of the cookies are turning golden brown.
• 8 allow cookies to cool.
• 9 whisk together the icing sugar, butter and almond extract until smooth.
• 10 add small amounts of milk until the glaze is spreadable.
• 11 drop small amounts of the glaze onto the center of each cookie.
• 12 if you want, you can place a quartered marashino cherry in the middle of each cookie as well to garnish.