Recipe - Double Almond Butter Cookies

2 cup Softened butter
2 One half cup Powdered sugar; sifted,
divided
4 cup Flour
2 One fourth teaspoon Vanilla; divided
2/3 cup Almond paste
One fourth cup Firmly packed light brown
sugar
=AB cup chopped almonds;
toasted

Beat butter with 1 cup powdered sugar Gradually beat in flour. Bet in 2 tsp
vanilla. Cover and chill dough 30 minutes. Combine almond paste, brown
sugar almonds and remaining One fourth tsp vanilla. Shape dough around =AB ts
almond paste mixture, completely enclosing almond paste center and forming
1inch balls. Place on ungreased baking pans. Bake in preheated 350 F oven
15 minutes. Cool. Roll cookies in remaining 1One half cup powdered sugar or sift
powdered sugar over cookies.

Makes 8 dozen Posted to MMRecipes Digest V4 #208 by PMCiesla@aol.com on
Aug 9, 1997