Icy Christmas cakes recipe: Mini glazed cakes from 1969 - Click Americana (2024)

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
• 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg white, slightly beaten
• 1/2 cup finely-chopped walnuts (or pecans)
• 1/2 cup red and green candied cherries, halved

Instructions

1. Cream butter; add sugar and continue beating until blended.
2. Separate one egg.
3. Beat in egg yolk, vanilla, lemon juice and peels.
4. Combine flour and salt; add to creamed mixture; blend well.
5. Chill dough for 2 to 4 hours.
6. Preheat oven to 300 F.
7. Remove dough from refrigerator and shape into 1-inch balls.
8. Dip balls in the slightly-beaten egg white, then in the chopped nuts.
9. Place on buttered cookie sheets.
10. Make a thumbprint in each dough ball, and place a red or green candied cherry half (curved side up) into the indentation at the top of each cookie.
11. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
12. Remove to wire rack to cool.

Notes

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