Snowdrops

Submitted by MummaKat

"When I think of Xmas or Mennonite baking, I think of these delicious melt-in-your-mouth bites. When I was too lazy to make them, I used to be able to get them at the local farmers market."

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Ready In:: 20mins
Ingredients:: 6
Yields:: 1 dozen cookies

ingredients

1 cup butter
4 tablespoons icing sugar
2 cups cake flour
1 cup almonds, chopped
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon water

directions

Beat butter until creamy; add sugar and blend some more. Mix in the flour, nuts, vanilla and water.
Chill until firm enough to shape with your fingers into small round balls.
Bake at 400 F for 10 minutes, but watch them - remember they are snow drops, shouldn't even turn golden.
Roll in sifted icing sugar as soon as you remove them from the oven. Mmm, toasty fingers coated in melted sugar!