submitted by Susan Williams |
Ingredients:
- 1 cup margarine or butter
- 3/4 cup Manitoba honey
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tarter
How to Prepare:
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Bake Time 12 minutes
- 1Cream together margarine or butter and Manitoba honey
- Add to cream mixture egg, teaspoon vanilla, teaspoon almond extract
- Blend dry ingredients into cream mixture (flour, baking soda, cream of tarter)
Refrigerate for 10 minutes.Form a heaping tablespoon into a ball and flatten on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 12 minutes (baking time will vary depending on oven).
This cookie is like a drop sugar cookie. It can be eaten plain or decorated with your favorite icing. For valentines bake part of the dough in a heart shaped cake pan and surprise your sweetheart with a valentine cookie. Adjusted baking time approximately 20 minutes.
Variation- Thumbprint Cookies
Follow the Honey Sugar Cookie Recipe in addition use ¼ teaspoon almond extract.
Using a level tablespoon roll dough into balls and place 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheet and chill for approximately 10 minutes. Using your thumb or the rounded end of a spoon make an indentation in the center of each ball. Fill each indentation with ¼ teaspoon jam, raspberry, strawberry, or apricot, and bake until tops are pale golden and undersides are golden 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer cookies to a rack and cool completely. For variety omit jam, bake as usual and while cooling place a chocolate kiss in the indentation.
