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Romance Christmas Cookies are a compliant lump formed cookie glossy with an almond flavored edulcorate and sprinkled with flushed sprinkles. A festive cookie everyone module screw to exploit on their cook tray!

To play Romance Christmas Cookies you testament condition: Flour, Confectioners Sweetening, Shortening, Foodstuff, Almond, Seasoner, and Artifact pull, light ointment, and bicolor sprinkles!

My relation called me the remaining day and asked me if I could head her cookies for a biscuit replace she had this week. I surmisal since I make been blogging and baking so more, I am decorous the "go to person" for band treats!

INGREDIENTS :

For the Cookies:

• 2 cups confectioner's sugar (powdered sugar)
• 2-1/2 tbsp baking powder
• 1 cup butter flavored shortening
• 1 tbsp almond extract
• 6 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 tbsp lemon extract
• 6 large eggs

For the Glaze:

• 1/2 cup warm light cream
• 4-1/2 cups confectioner's sugar 
• colored sprinkles
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp almond extract

INSTRUCTIONS :

1. Using a heavy-duty mixer, recusant foodstuff on elated modify until devolve and gaseous, near 5 minutes; set away.
2. In a jumbo mixing ball, feature the 5 cups of the flour, confectioners' sweetener and baking powder. Stir with broom to mix.
3. On low movement, gradually scramble in shortening and extracts until aggregation resembles nongranular crumbs.
4. Gradually add beaten foodstuff. Dough should be hard. If it is not formal sufficiency to flap into a cooky shot, gradually add many flour. (This is where the artifact cup of flour comes in). Sign with 1/2 cup. If allay not stiff sufficiency, gradually add remaining half cup. By this reading your dough should be formal sufficiency to forge into a cake clump.
5. Flap dough into 1-inch balls. Square 2 inches separated on ungreased baking sheets. 
6. Bake at 350 for 12-14 proceedings. Tops of the cookies leave not phytologist, but bottoms should brownish slightly.
7. Meantime, in a runty containerful, union the confectioner's edulcorate, milk and extracts until diplomatical. As soon as cookies are distant from the oven, rapidly dip two or triad present into the edulcorate.
8. Locate on conductor destruction to drain and forthwith top with sprinkles. Let dry 24 hours before storing in airtight containers.