Almond Angel Cookies

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The sugared logs of dough request to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 2 hours, and up to 2 days. The cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for up to 10 days.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 44

16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
1 cupful granulated sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 spoon vanilla extract
1/2 spoon almond extract
1/2 spoon kosher salt
2 1/2 cups flour
1/4 cupful yellowish sanding sugar, oregon much arsenic needed
88 mini salted pretzels
1 cupful sliced almonds (you won't usage them all, but you request to beryllium capable to prime retired 88 slices that are not broken)
1 conduit yellowish decorating icing, oregon colour of your prime (for the hair)
1 conduit bluish oregon achromatic decorating icing (for the eyes)
1 conduit pinkish oregon reddish decorating icing (for the mouths)

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (without the icing, utilizing 1/2 cupful almond slices)

Calories
100
Fat
5 g
Saturated Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
14 g
Sodium
80 mg
Cholesterol
10 mg
Protein
1 g
Sugar
6 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Betty Crocker Christmas Cookbook" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017).

Tested by Kara Elder and Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published November 30, 2017

Updated March 16, 2026