Creating traditions, like baking holiday cookies, makes the time special and for a brief moment, slows everything down. These little moments are what family memories are all about.
Ingredients:
1 cup butter or shortening 1 egg 1/4 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon almond extract 3/4 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 1/4 cup flour
Directions:
- Mix sugar, eggs and butter until smooth
- Add vanilla and almond extract
- add baking powder and salt
- Mix in flour 1/2 cup at a time
- Color your dough as desired then put into Pampered Chef Cookie Press
- Twist 1/2 a turn until shaped cookie is out
- Bake at 375 degrees F on ungreased cookies sheets for 8-10 minutes
About the Author
Sabrina Houser is the CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region and in 2017 started a company called Capital CFO. She saw a need for small and mid-sized businesses and nonprofits to outsource their bookkeeping and CFO work and she wanted to help and be a resource for those that felt they needed to do it all on their own. She married her favorite person in 2006 and she and her husband Cory live in Saratoga Springs. They are raising Anna (9) and Cole (6) and adopted a puppy (Pearl) to complete their family.