Greek Butter Cookies ~ My First Cookie Recipe All By Myself

I've been reading lots of library books about cooking in other countries. I decided I wanted to try making one of the recipes I had read about. This recipe is for Greek Butter Cookies. It comes from the book Cooking the Greek Way by Lynne W. Villios. It's under "Books I've Read" on my left sidebar if you want to take a look.

Greek Butter Cookies

2 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 c. (2 sticks butter, softened)
1/2 c. sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
powdered sugar for sprinkling

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
3. In a large bowl, beat together butter, sugar, and egg until light and fluffy. Add flour mixture to butter mixture and mix until well blended. Add vanilla and almond extracts and mix well.
4. With your hands, form dough into balls, crescents, or S-shapes, using about 1/2 teaspoon at a time.
5. Place cookies 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet. Put cookie sheet on middle oven rack and bake 15 minutes, or until barely brown around the edges.
6. Remove cookies from cookie sheet with spatula and cool on wire rack for 5 minutes.
7. With flour sifter, sprinkle powdered sugar over cookies.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

These are the cookies after they were done:

Comments

[Deb]

Brooke and I both said "YUM!" at the same time. We'd love for you to make these for a tea party once. Wouldn't that be fun?
Ms. Deb

[brooke]

maggie.
i love cokeis! i dont thingk i have ever had one of those.
miss you!
love
brooke