Alphabet Cookies

[Wyndi]

here's a recipe that helps teach the kids and lets them "play" with thier food too.

Alphabet Cookies

4 1/2 cup unsifted all-purpose flour

1 1/2 cup butter

3 hard boiled egg yolks

3 raw eff yolks

3/4 cup sugar

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

 

Preheat oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit.

Measure flour into a large bowl. Cut butter into small pieces. Mix into flour with your fingers. Mash hard boiled eggs with sugar and stir into flour mixture. Beat raw egg yolks and vanilla together. Mix into flour mixture. Press dough into a firm ball. Roll dough out. Cut into strips 3 to 4 inches long and roll them between fingers and palms to make ropes. Shape ropes into letters. Flatten slightly. Decorate if youlike. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes or until light golden brown.