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

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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

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Updated March 16, 2026

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