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Delicious almond shortbread cookies that I made for my friend, Wendy, who is currently living in Maine. These are my favorite cookies, I think they will soon be hers too.
Cookie Ingredients
1 cup butter, softened
¾ cup white sugar
1 teaspoon almond extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
⅛ teaspoon salt
1 cup sliced almonds
Icing Ingredients
2 cups confectioner's sugar
1 tablespoon butter, softened
1½ teaspoons almond extract
2½ tablespoons half-and-half
Directions
1. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, sugar, and almond extract until smooth. Combine the flour and salt; stir into the butter mixture until well blended. Cover and refrigerate for 3 to 4 hours or overnight.
2. Preheat the oven to 300ºF (150ºC). Roll dough into teaspoon sized balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Using your index finger, flatten out dough balls by lightly pressing down on them from the center, outward, in a circular motion.
3. Bake for 30 minutes in the preheated oven, or until firm. While cookies are baking, mix all icing ingredients together with a stand mixer in a medium bowl and set aside. Remove cookies from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.
4. Once cooled, apply a thin layer of icing to each cookie and add chopped almonds on top.
my friend is the head chef at a little place that serves tea and gourmet pastries and sandwiches and salads. She made this for me! It was so good. And so was the orange roll we shared. We had gobbled it down before I got to take a photo of it, though. :)
This was somewhere in the countryside beyond Norwich
my friends drove me all around to different places I would never see otherwise!
Steve and I celebrate Christmas and spend five exciting days in Hong Kong -- amazing food, packed subways and streets, and tiny, tiny rooms everywhere. This may be one of our favorite cities, for its eclectic mix of different cultures and languages, squeezed next to each other with nary an inch to spare. If only it wasn't more expensive than NYC!
Follow our trip at www.circumnavacation.com!
The Beat 94.5 Kid Carson Show host, Nira Arora hosted a baby shower at Absolute Spa for 40 lucky listeners and United Way was there to join in on the girly fun.
Nira called upon listeners of the show to donate diapers to United Way of the Lower Mainland. Thank you to everyone that donated. Your diapers will be given to mothers at United Way supported YWCA's Crabtree Corner in Vancouver's Down Town East Side.
A huge thank you to Absolute Spa for hosting the event and for matching every diaper donated. www.absolutespa.com/
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We shared several beautiful plates at One Eared Stag. When Ana (a discriminating diner) deeply appreciates the restaurant I have chosen for us, I am pervaded with relief.