Smartie Cookies Recipe

How to make it

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• Preheat the oven to 190deg C. Keep 5-6 ungreased cookie sheets on hand.
• Beat the butter and sugar till fluffy and light.
• Add the salt + vanilla essence + almond essence and beat for 30 seconds.
• With a spatula mix in the beaten egg.
• Put in all the flour in one go, and gather together to make a firm dough.
• Chill for at least 30 minutes in wrap.
• Roll out to ¼ inch thickness and cut with assorted cookie cutters.
• Decorate with Smarties (or M ‘n’ M’s), and silver dragees if desired.
• Bake on ungreased cookie sheets for 12-14 minutes, watching closely so that they don’t get too brown.
• Remove from oven; let the cookies lay on the sheet for a minute. Remove to racks to cool.
• This recipe makes approximately 8-9 dozen 1 ½” small cookies.
• Note: You can flavour these with any other extract of your choice; or just leave them plain vanilla if you like. I think orange and lemon may work well with these, though I haven’t tried it myself.
• Keep an eye on the cookies towards the end of the baking time. If you find a couple browning before others, remove them from the sheet onto cookie rack, and return remaining cookies on sheet to the oven.