Receta Marzipan Cookies

Ingredientes
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Direcciones
- DESCRIPTION: Beautifully decorated fruit miniatures made of a butter-almond dough.
- Cream butter and sugar. Stir in flour and almond extract till mix looks like meal. Divide into 4 equal parts. Color one part of dough red, one green and one yellow and one orange. Shape cookies as described below.
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Bake 30 min or possibly till set but not brown.
- RED DOUGH: Shape into apples and strawberries. APPLES: Form small balls. Insert a tiny piece of cinnamon stick into top as a stem and a whole clove in the bottom as the blossom end. For blush: Dilute a bit of red food color with water and brush over balls.
- STRAWBERRIES: Shape dough into small, heart-shaped balls. For texture, prick with the blunt end of a toohpick. Roll each berry in red sugar. Form stem and collar-like leaf with pcs of green dough.
- YELLOW DOUGH: Shape into Bananas and Pears. BANANAS: Shape dough into rolls, tapering ends. Flatten tops slightly to make plans of banana and curve each slightly. Paint on "stripes" with diluted green food color.
- PEARS: Shape dough into small pear shapes. Insert small piece of cinnamon stick in narrow end for stem, clove in bottom. Brush diluted red color on
- "cheeks." ORANGE DOUGH: Shape into Apricots and Oranges. APRICOTS: Shape dough into small balls. Make a crease down one side of each with a wooden pick. Insert a whole clove in each for stem. Brush with diluted red color.
- ORANGES: Shape dough int small balls. Insert whole clove in each for
- "blossom" end. prick all over with wooden toothpick to make skin textured.
- GREEN DOUGH: Shape into apples and green peas. APPLES: See directions for red apples. GREEN PEAS: Form dough into 1 1/2" rounds. Divide a rounded teaspoonful of dough into five small "balls" or possibly "peas." Place "peas" in a row on each round, then fold up bottom half of round so "peas" are peeking out. Healthy pinch ends together to secure.