Frosties....the perfect holiday cookie Recipe coonstance

• I cup butter (2 sticks), softened
• 1 Tb. vanilla extract
• 1 Tb. rum extract
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• About 1/4 cup extra flour for dusting hands and counter as needed
• 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), softened
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 Tb. rum extract
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• red sugar sprinkles
• green sugar sprinkles

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large mixing bowl, with a spatula or large spoon, cream 1 cup butter with 1 Tb.
3. vanilla, 1 Tb.
4. rum extract, sugar, and egg.
5. Add 3 cups flour, nutmeg, and salt and continue stirring until dough forms and is smooth.
6. Lightly dust hands and counter with flour and begin rolling about 1/2 cup of dough at a time with your hands until the dough is about a 3/4 inch in diameter roll.
7. Cut roll into 2 inch lengths of cookies.
8. Butter knives or any safe plastic knives work great.
9. End pieces and mess-ups can easily be re-rolled again and again.
10. Have fun with the dough because it smells great and is very user-friendly!
11. Place cookies on cookie sheets about 1/2 inch apart.
12. They dont really spread out while they bake, so you can bake several dozen at a time and no need for parchment paper or no-stick spray.
13. Bake 1215 minutes or until the bottoms are lightly browned.
14. Cool cookies on paper towels or wire racks.
15. While cookies are baking and cooling, make frosting by stirring together 1 stick of butter with the remaining extracts and powdered sugar until smooth.
16. Place frosting in either a gallon size zipper food bag and cut off about 1/2 inch of one corner or use a decorating bag with 1M star tip.
17. Once cookies are completely cooled, pipe frosting in a mini-zigzag pattern on top of each cookie.
18. Decorate with red and/or green sugar spinkles on top of frosting.
19. Refrigerate unused dough and the frosting bag in separate zipper food bags for up to a week.
20. Just let them come to room temperature before re-using.

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Taken from www.chowhound.com/recipes/frostiesthe-perfect-holiday-cookie-27928 (may not work)