Italian wedding cookies

By mangia_g2

Ingredients

• Pastry:
• 1 stick unsalted butter
• 1 stick unsalted margarine
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 tsp almond extract
• 1/2 cup milk
• 3 1/4 - 3 1/2 cups flour
• salt
• 5 tsp baking powder
• Icing:
• 1/2 lb confectioners sugar
• 2 TB butter
• 1 TB milk, more if needed
• almond flavoring to taste
• food coloring, if desired
• coconut, for dipping

Details

Servings 3

Preparation

Step 1

For the pastry:

Preheat oven to 350.
In a large bowl, cream butters, sugar, and eggs together. Add extract, milk, flour, salt and baking powder.
Keeping your hands wet, shape a piece of dough into a ball (a little higher in the middle). Bake on an ungreased baking sheet for 13 minutes or until lightly browned.
Cool.

For the icing:

Mix all ingredients (except coconut) together until a frosting consistency is reached. Ice the cooled cookies and dip in coconut.