Magic Carpet Cookies

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 3 teaspoons almonds or 3 teaspoons vanilla flavoring
• 2 2/3 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 375.
• 2 cream together butter, sugar, egg, flavoring.
• 3 stir dry ingredients together; blend in.
• 4 reserve 1/2 of dough; roll the rest into 2 rectangles, 12" x 6".
• 5 cut rectangles lengthwise into 3 strips.
• 6 lift each strip carefully onto ungreased baking sheet.
• 7 put reserve dough into cookie press.
• 8 using smallest star design, press a long rope down each side of each strip, and one down the center.
• 9 bake 10 minutes, until edges are light brown.
• 10 when cookies are cool, fill between the rows with different colored jellies or icing.
• 11 cut cookies into 1" diagonal pieces.