Hello from TINA KASHIAN! I love cookies and holiday cookie swaps. I also enjoy baking during the holidays and my Armenian family made these cookies every year. I prepared this batch with my youngest teenage daughter, and we had fun rolling the dough. They smell delicious fresh out of the oven and taste flaky and light. The added almond adds flavor and crunch. The recipe calls for rose water which can be found in most international aisles of supermarkets. But if you can’t find it, the cookies taste great without it.
Ingredients:
¾ cup unsalted clarified butter
½ cup vegetable shortening
1 ¼ cups sugar
1 teaspoon rose water (found in Mediterranean or Middle Eastern aisle) Optional
2 ¼ cups flour
Whole almonds
Directions:
Preheat oven to 275 degrees. Mix butter, shortening, sugar and rose water until fluffy in an electric mixer. Add four, mix thoroughly.
Taking about two tablespoons of dough, roll into a smooth rope.
Make a circle with the rope and pinch the seams tighter. Press a whole, shelled almond into the seam. Place on a lined baking sheet.
Bake for 20 -25 minutes or until slightly golden brown on the bottom.
Cool on rack. Enjoy!
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Not
even her impending nuptials can keep Lucy Berberian, manager of her
family-owned Kebab Kitchen, from the Jersey Shore’s annual Polar Bear Plunge.
But her dive into the icy ocean is especially chilling when she finds a fellow
swimmer doing the dead man’s float—for real . . .
Who would kill a man in cold blood during Ocean Crest, New Jersey’s most
popular winter event? When Lucy learns the victim is Deacon Spooner, the
reception hall owner who turned up his nose—and his price—at her wedding plans,
she can’t help wondering who wouldn’t kill the pompous caterer . . .
Perhaps the culprit is the wedding cake baker whose career Deacon nearly
destroyed? Or the angry bride whose reception he ruined? With her maid of
honor, Katie, busily planning Lucy’s wedding without her, Lucy will have to get
to the bottom of this cold-hearted business in time for Kebab Kitchen’s
mouthwatering Christmas celebration—and before her hometown’s holiday spirit
washes out to sea . . .
Recipes included
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Tina Kashian is an attorney and a former mechanical engineer whose love of reading for pleasure helped her get through years of academia. Tina spent her childhood summers at the Jersey shore building sandcastles, boogie boarding, and riding the boardwalk Ferris wheel. She also grew up in the restaurant business, as her Armenian parents owned a restaurant for thirty years. Tina still lives in New Jersey with her supportive husband and two daughters.
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