Spumoni cookies

Updated at: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 19:18:16 GMT

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Spumoni Cookies: 1 cup margarine or butter softened 1/2 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 egg 2 1/4 cups flour 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 cup pistachio nuts or toasted almonds 6 drops green food color 1 square (1 ounce) unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled 2 tablespoons finely chopped maraschino cherries, drained. Mix margarine, sugar, vanilla and egg. Stir in flour and salt. Divide dough into 3 equal parts. Mix pistachio nuts and food color into 1 part. Mix chocolate into 1 part. Mix cherries into remaining part. Line bottom and ends of loaf pan, 9x5x3 inches, with aluminum foil, allowing ends of foil to extend 5 inches over each end of pan. Press nut dough evenly in bottom, then press chocolate dough on top of the nut dough, then press cherry dough on top of the chocolate dough. Cover with extended ends of aluminum foil and chill for at least 2 hours, but no longer than 6 weeks. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Remove foil and dough from pan; remove foil. Cut dough into 1/4 inch slices; then cut each slice crosswise into halves. Place cookies about 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until set - about 10 minutes. I like to melt a little semi-sweet chocolate and drizzle a little over the cookies to make them look prettier. Editing to say: I really recommend adding some almond flavoring to the pistachio/almond dough to heighten and separate out that layer from the plain dough (I think the cherry carries the cherry layer nicely).

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