Hertzengles – German Christmas Cookie

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1 heaping cup sugar
1 heaping cup butter
4 eggs
1 cup ground almonds (toast in oven then grind before measuring)
1 tsp salt
2 TBL cinnamon
4 cups flour
3 tsp almond extract
1 ½ tsp vanilla

Cream together sugar and butter. Add eggs. In another bowl, mix ground almonds, salt, cinnamon and flour. Add to sugar-butter-eggs mixture Add almond extract and vanilla. Combine. Chill dough for several hours or overnight.

Dust counter with flour. Take a small ball of dough and roll it very thin. Cut out shapes. Transfer to baking sheet.

Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes until brown around the edges. Let cool.

Frost cookies with mixture of powdered sugar and a little milk and food coloring. Sprinkle with decorations.

Added 01.19.19