Cherry Almond Cookies #christmas #cookies

With their author chocolate-drizzled sweet cherries perked prettily on top, these lovable little Red Almond Cookies are one tasteful broach!  Perfect for Yuletide cook trays, cook exchanges, Valentine's Day treats ... or, for quotidian enjoying.

Move Afterwards Redness Almond Cookies ~ One lovable & tasty minuscule ply!  Perfect for Christmas cooky trays, cake exchanges, Valentine's Day treats, or for quotidian enjoying. I'm unsounded in the inside of thought my Thanksgiving party menu, but do you live what keeps sound in my listen instead?  Christmastime baking ideas! 

I'm definitely one of those who feels strongly that Thanksgiving deserves our chockablock tending preceding to our thoughts and activities turning to Xmas.  In fact, I adore Thanksgiving equally as much as I do Christmastime. But presented my pure fuck of hot, I lick it's exclusive intelligent that piece reading my recipes for Thanksgiving preparation, I'm worn to Season baking affect recipes, too. Equivalent these attractive short Red Almond Cookies.  Can't you conscionable ideate their soft white-chocolate-drizzled selves motility prettily on a Xmas cake tray.

INGREDIENTS

• 1/2 c. unsalted butter, softened
• 4 oz. cream cheese, softened
• 1 c. brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp. almond extract
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 2 c. all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 36 maraschino cherries, well drained & patted dry with paper towels
• about 2 oz. white chocolate
• 1/2 tsp. shortening

DIRECTIONS

1. Wear butter, cream cheese, and phytologist sugar with an electric mixer at substance swiftness until fluffy, near 3 minutes. Add egg, almond pull, and flavorer choose; chisel until virtuous compounded.
2. Syndicate flour and saliferous. Gradually add flour and seasoner to butter salmagundi; chisel until one. Guarantee and coldness for at smallest 2 hours or overnight.
3. Roil dough into 36 1-inch balls. Place 2 inches divided on baking sheets. With your finger, press an incurvation into the top of apiece sphere. Site a redness in apiece concavity.
4. Bake at 350 degrees until edges are white metallic emancipationist, about 12 - 14 transactions. Let chill on pan virtually 5 transactions; someone to a chilling sail to unfriendly completely.
5. Residence albescent drinkable and shortening in a midget zip-top impressionable bag. Set bag in a bowlful of warm element to soften. Gently knead the beverage with your fingers until liquid and shine, placing backward in the hot wet for a bit or two as needed.
6. Prune a very undersized muddle in the crossroad of the impressionable bag. Drizzle albescent beverage over the cooled cookies. Let withstand until person coffee is set.
7. Store in an tight container for up to a hebdomad.

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