Cut these delicious honey-flavored cookies
into Hanukkah shapes--menorahs, dreidels and Hebrew letters--and
decorate with blue icing.
Hanukkah
Honey Cookies
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
2/3 cup honey
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 large egg
2 3/4 cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Easy Almond Glaze (See Below)
Blue Decorator's Frosting (See Below)
- Heat oven to 375ºF.
Lightly grease cookie sheet.
- Mix powdered sugar, butter,
honey, almond extract and egg in large bowl. Stir in flour, baking
soda and salt.
- Roll dough 1/8-inch thick
on lightly floured cloth-covered surface. Cut with cookie cutters.
Place about 1-inch apart on cookie sheet.
- Bake 7 to 8 minutes or
until light brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire
rack. Cool completely.
- Frost with Easy Almond
Glaze; decorate with Blue Decorator's Frosting.
Makes 3 1/2 dozen 2-inch
cookies.
- Easy Almond Glaze:
2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
2 to 3 tablespoons water
- Mix powdered sugar, almond
extract and 2 tablespoons water until smooth.
- Stir in remaining 1 tablespoon
water, 1 teaspoon at a time, until spreadable.
- Blue Decorator's Frosting:
1 cup powdered sugar
3 to 5 teaspoons water
Blue food color
- Mix powdered sugar and
enough water to make a frosting that can be easily drizzled or
used in a decorating bag yet hold its shape.
- Stir in 3 or 4 drops food
color.
Purchasing Tip:
Make these wonderful cookies a family tradition. You can cut
them freehand, but using cookie cutters makes the job much easier.
Many cake decorating and arts and craft stores sell the cookie
cutters used to make these cookies.
Nutritional Information: 1 Serving, Calories 90 (Calories
from Fat 20 ); Total Fat 2 g (Saturated Fat 0g); Cholesterol
5 mg; Sodium 75 mg; Total Carbohydrate 20 g (Dietary Fiber 0g);
Protein 1 g% Daily Value: Vitamin A 2 %; Vitamin C 0%; Calcium
0%; Iron 2 %, Exchanges: 1 Starch.
Recipe and photograph provided courtesy of General Mills,
Inc.
