Fall Leaves Sugar Cookies

• 1 cup Land O Lakes Butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 Land O Lakes Egg
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• Red, orange and yellow gel food colors
• Coarse white, orange and/or yellow decorator sugars

1. Combine butter and sugar in bowl; beat at medium speed until creamy.
2. Add egg, milk and almond extract; continue beating until well mixed.
3. Add flour and baking powder; beat at low speed until well mixed.
4. Divide dough into thirds; place each portion into separate bowls.
5. Add very small amount of red gel food color to 1 portion; mix well.
6. Add additional red gel for desired color, if necessary.
7. Repeat with remaining dough portions and gel food colors.
8. Shape each dough into ball; flatten each ball to 1/2-inch thickness.
9. Wrap each in plastic food wrap; refrigerate 2-3 hours or until firm.
10. Heat oven to 400F.
11. Working with half of each dough color (keeping remaining dough refrigerated), drop tablespoon-size pieces of dough from each color onto well-floured surface in random pattern with dough pieces touching.
12. Roll out dough to 1/4- to 1/8-inch thickness, forming marbled design.
13. Cut with 3-inch leaf-shaped cookie cutters.
14. Place cookies, 1 inch apart, onto ungreased cookie sheets.
15. Sprinkle with decorator sugar.
16. Bake 7-9 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned.
17. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet; remove to cooling rack.

butter, sugar, egg, milk, almond, flour, baking powder, red, white

Taken from www.landolakes.com/recipe/1761/fall-leaves-sugar-cookies (may not work)