Tea Cookies

FOR THE COOKIES: 1 c. butter, at room temp 2/3 c. sugar 1 egg 2½ c. flour ½ tsp. baking powder 1/8 tsp. salt 1 tsp. vanilla

MAKES: 3 DOZEN COOKIES

FOR THE ICING: Leaf Green & Red

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.

2. Cream butter and sugar together. Add egg and mix well. Add vanilla.

3. Add dry ingredients. Mix well.

4. Using a cookie press with a star tip, pipe out strands of dough about 4” long onto an ungreased cookie sheet and form into circles to resemble a wreath.

5. Bake at 450 degrees for 10-12 minutes, watching that they don’t get brown.

6. Decorate with green and red icing. Using a leaf tip and green icing, pipe three small leaves in a circle at the top of each cookie. Then, using the red icing and small dot tip, pipe out three red dots in the middle of the leaves to resemble berries.

This is Wendie’s great-grandmother’s recipe that her family always enjoyed over the Holidays.