Sandbakkels (norwegian Almond Cookies)

Total Time: 2 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 2 hrs Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 3 3/4 cups flour

Recipe

• 1 cream together butter, shortening, and sugar.
• 2 add egg, egg yolk, and almond extract. beat until well mixed.
• 3 add flour until you have a fairly stiff dough.
• 4 refrigerate for 1 hour.
• 5 press about 2.5- 3 teaspoonful dough into a greased 3-inch sandbakkel tin. start at bottom and press evenly and thinly as possible up the sides. (note these do not fill the tin, they make a shell).
• 6 to make a pattern on the inside (optional), take an empty sandbakkel tin and put it on top of the filled sandbakkel tin and press lightly, carefully remove the top tin.
• 7 bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes or until lightly brown.
• 8 remove from oven and place upside down on cooling rack. tap bottoms while still warm to remove from sandbakkel tins.
• 9 makes about 5 dozen.