Smartie Cookies

• 34 cup butter (room temp)
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 12 cups flour
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 teaspoon almond essence or 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• smarties candies or M&M's plain chocolate candy

1. Preheat the oven to 190C.
2. Keep 5-6 ungreased cookie sheets on hand.
3. Beat the butter and sugar till fluffy and light.
4. Add the salt + vanilla essence + almond essence and beat for 30 seconds.
5. With a spatula mix in the beaten egg.
6. Put in all the flour in one go, and gather together to make a firm dough.
7. Chill for at least 30 minutes in wrap.
8. Roll out to 1/4 inch thickness and cut with assorted cookie cutters.
9. Decorate with Smarties (or M n Ms), and silver dragees if desired.
10. Bake on ungreased cookie sheets for 12-14 minutes, watching closely so that they dont get too brown.
11. Remove from oven; let the cookies lay on the sheet for a minute.
12. Remove to racks to cool.
13. Note: You can flavour these with any other extract of your choice; or just leave them plain vanilla if you like.
14. I think orange and lemon may work well with these, though I havent tried it myself.
15. Keep an eye on the cookies towards the end of the baking time.
16. If you find a couple browning before others, remove them from the sheet onto cookie rack, and return remaining cookies on sheet to the oven.

butter, caster sugar, egg, flour, salt, almond, vanilla, smarties

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/smartie-cookies-263739 (may not work)