Recipe For Cooking Johnny Appleseed Apples

Toaster Oven Cookies :: Holiday Cookies

Johnny Appleseed Apples

1/2 C. butter, softened
1/4 C. sugar
1/8 tea. almond extract or flavoring
1 1/4 C. flour
Red food coloring
Green food coloring
Red sugar decorating crystals
Green sugar decorating crystals
Whole cloves

Cream butter, sugar and flavoring in a lrg. mixing bowl. Reserve 1 Tbsp. of the mixture in a sm. bowl. Add red food coloring to lrg. portion; and green food coloring to sm. portion.

Stir flour into the lrg.r bowl of red dough. Add just enough flour to sm. bowl of green batter to make it pliable and easy to work dough.

Roll about 2 tea. of the red dough into a ball and roll in red sugar crystals. Place on unprepared cookie sheet. Pin. a dab of the green dough between your fingers and pat to form leaf, dip into green sugar. Place two leaves on each ball. Insert whole clove between them to form “stem." Chill for 30 min.

Bake about 30 min. in 300 degree F oven.