Makes: 48 cookies
2 sticks sweet butter
½ cup confectioner’s sugar (icing sugar)
1 egg yolk
½ tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp Greek brandy
2 ½ cups flour, sifted then measured
½ tsp baking powder
½ finely chopped walnuts or almonds
48 cloves
Additional icing sugar
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Soften butter at room temperature. Then beat butter with electric mixer until light and fluffy.
3. Sift the flour and baking powder together.
4. Add the nuts to butter mixture.
5. Then add flour mixture and stir to form a soft dough.
6. Knead lightly and chill for several hours or overnight.
7. Form the dough into balls, using a rounded tsp of dough for each cookie, and place on an ungreased cookie sheet 2 inches apart.
8. Place a whole clove in each cookie.
9. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes or until light brown.
10. Roll warm cookies in icing sugar.
11. Cool and store in airtight containers.
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