Title: Spumoni Cookies
Categories: Cookies, Snacks, Chocolate, Fruits, Nuts
Yield: 72 Cookies
1 c Butter; softened
1/2 c Sugar
1 ts Vanilla
1 lg Egg
2 1/4 c A-P flour
1/4 c Pistachios or toasted
- almonds; chopped
6 dr Green food coloring
1 oz Unweetened chocolate; melted
- cooled
2 tb Marschino cherries; finely
- chopped, drained
1/2 ts Salt
Mix butter, sugar, vanilla, and eggs. Stir in flour and salt.
Divide dough into 3 equal parts.
Mix nuts and food coloring in one part. Mix chocolate into 1 part;
mix cherries into remaining part.
Line bottom and ends of a 9x5x3" loaf pan with aluminum foil,
allowing ends of foil to extend 5" over each end of pan.
Press nut dough evenly in bottom of pan. Press chocolate dough on
top of nut dough. Press cherry dough on top of chocolate dough.
Cover dough with extended ends of foil. Refrigerate at least
2 hours but no longer than 6 weeks.
Heat oven to 375 F/190 C.
Remove foil & dough from pan; remeove foil. Cut dough crosswise in
1/4" slices; cut each slice into half. Place about 1 apart on
ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake cookies until set, about 10 minutes. Immediately remove from
cookie sheet.
