Marzipan Cookies

Name: Marzipan Cookies
Prep time: 3 h
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons almond extract; 237 milliliters butter or margarine, softened; 591 milliliters Gold Medal® all-purpose flour; 4 servings Food colors; 118 milliliters sugar

Marzipan Cookies is a vegetarian recipe with 4 servings. This dessert has 789 calories, 9g of protein, and 47g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 13% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 3 hours. If you have sugar, butter, flour, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Mix butter and sugar in large bowl. Stir in flour and almond extract until mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Divide into 3 equal parts. Tint and shape dough as directed below.

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Almond Extract

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

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Bowl

Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Cover and refrigerate at least 30 minutes.

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Baking Sheet

Heat oven to 300ºF.

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Oven

Bake about 30 minutes or until set but not brown.

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Oven

Mix red food color into part of dough. Shape into small balls, then into heart shapes, about 3/4 inch high. Prick with blunt end of toothpick for texture.

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Red Food Color