Title: Cookie-Press Cookies (M Stewart)
Categories: Christmas c, Cookies, Celebrity, Cookbook
Yield: 36 Servings

3 Sticks unsalted butter; at
-room temperature, (1 1/2
-cups)
1 c Sugar
2 Eggs; separated
3 3/4 c All-purpose flour
1/4 ts Salt
1 tb Vanilla extract
Chopped nuts
Colored sugar
Multicolored candies

MAKES 2 TO 3 DOZEN

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, flour,
salt, and vanilla. Mix well.

Fill cookie press with dough and shape fancy cookies on an ungreased baking
sheet. Brush the top of each cookie with the egg whites, beaten slightly
with a little water. Decorate or leave plain.

Bake in a preheated 4OO degree oven until the cookies are golden brown on
top and done throughout. Test one. Thin cookies take 5 to 6 minutes; thick
ones 8 to 15 minutes. Cool slightly, then remove with spatula. When cool,
store in airtight container.

Source: Christmas Memories with Recipes, Edited by Maron Waxman, 1988

MC_Busted and edited for MC by Brenda Adams

Notes: Martha says that this is a very good buttery dough for the cookie
press. "I especially like to make Christmas-tree shaped cookies or star- or
heart-shaped cookies. Sometimes I will stick two cookies together with
melted chocolate."

Recipe by: Martha Kostyra Stewart - family recipe

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #965 by Badams on
Dec 18, 1997