World Famous Recipes

1 cup granulated sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon almond extract

2 teaspoons baking powder

3 cups all-purpose flour

Leaf green, orange, yellow, red, orange and brown icing color

Orange, yellow and red colored sugar, as desired

Chocolate jimmies

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, vanilla and almond extracts; mix well. Combine flour and baking powder; add to butter mixture, 1 cup at a time, mixing well after each addition. Do not chill dough.

Divide dough into 5 portions. Tint portions of dough orange, green, yellow and red; reserve some without coloring. Continue as directed below:

For marbleized multi-color leaves, place 2 or 3 pieces of different tinted dough colors side by side; roll out dough about 1/4-inch thick. Cut with leaf Cutters.

For sugared leaves, roll out uncolored dough 1/4-inch thick. Cut with leaf cutters. Sprinkle, as desired, with colored sugar.

To make veins on leaves, thin a small amount of dough with water to piping consistency; place in parchment or disposable decorating bag fitted with a No. 3 tip. Roll out tinted or plain dough about 1/4-inch thick. Cut with leaf cutters. Pipe leaf veins on cookies with thinned dough.

For acorns, tint pain dough brown; roll out 1/4-inch think. Cut cookies with acorn cutters. Decorate with jimmies.