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- ½ cup + 2 Tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature
- ½ cup + 2 Tbsp icing sugar, sifted
- 1 hard-boiled large egg yolk
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ¾ cups cake and pastry flour, sifted
- 1 cup icing sugar, sifted
- ¼ teaspoon almond or vanilla extract
- 6-8 glacée (candied) cherries, each chopped into 6
- bits
- Tender Heart Dough Instructions
- 1. Beat the butter and icing
- to about ¼-inch thick and cut out cookies using a 2-inch fluted cookie cutter,
- the icing sugar with 1 Tbsp of water and the almond or vanilla extract and add the
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