Secret Cookies

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 lb salted butter, softened
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 2 tablespoons sugar, red, green, multi-colored (appox.)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 in a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar. add the yolks and vanilla, mixing well. add the flour and mix thoroughly.
• 3 use mounded teaspoonfuls and make balls of dough with your hands. place on an ungreased cookie sheet, then flatten the dough with the bottom of a patterned glass dipped in colored sugar (don't mix the red and green!).
• 4 bake for about 10 minutes (watch carefully as they burn easily), until the cookies are lightly golden just around the edges. let the cookies rest on the baking sheets for a minute or two and then gently transfer to baking racks to cool -- they're fragile.