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butter vegetable shortening powdered sugar sugar vanilla flour ground cardamom double-acting baking powder salt almonds slivered almonds
Viewed: 13 - Published at: 6 years agoIngredients
- 14 cup butter
- 14 cup vegetable shortening
- 13 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar, plus more for flattening cookies
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 14 teaspoon double-acting baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 13 cup almonds, toasted and chopped fine
- slivered almonds, for decorating cookies
Method
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- Cream together the butter, shortening and sugars and vanilla until the mixture is fluffy.
- Sift together the flour, cardamom, baking powder and salt.
- Blend into the butter/sugar mixture.
- Fold in the chopped nuts.
- Roll teaspoons of dough into balls, place balls onto greased baking sheet, and flatten each ball with the bottom of a juice glass or cookie press dipped in granulated sugar.
- Arrange slivered almonds in a decorative star pattern on top of each cookie.
- B.
- Bake the cookies 18 minutes or so.
- Remove from cookie sheet and cool.
