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Autumn Blaze Cookies

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Tools:

• Leaves and Acorns Nesting Metal Cutter Set
• Cookie Sheet
• Tip: 3

Ingredients:

• Leaf Green, Orange, Golden Yellow, Red-Red, Christmas Red, Orange, Brown Icing Colors
• Orange, Yellow, Red Colored Sugars
• Chocolate Jimmies
• 1-1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon Wilton Pure Vanilla Extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 cups all-purpose flour

Preheat oven to 400°F.

In large bowl, cream butter and sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, vanilla and almond extracts; mix well. Combine flour and baking powder; add to butter mixture, 1 cup at time, mixing well after each addition. Do not chill dough.

Divide dough into 5 portions. Tint portions of dough orange, green, yellow and red; reserve some without coloring.

For marbleized multi-color leaves, place 2 or 3 pieces of different tinted dough colors side by side; roll out dough about 1/4-inch thick. Cut with leaf cutters.

For sugared leaves, roll out uncolored dough 1/4-inch thick. Cut with leaf cutters. Sprinkle, as desired, with colored sugar.

To make veins on leaves, thin a small amount of dough with water to piping consistency; place in parchment or disposable decorating bag fitted with tip #3. Roll out tinted or plain dough about 1/4-inch thick. Cut with leaf cutters. Pipe leaf veins on cookies with thinned dough.

For acorns, tint plain dough brown; roll out 1/4-inch thick. Cut cookies with acorn cutters. Decorate with jimmies.

Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet 7 to 8 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. Cool completely on cooling grid.

Makes 3 dozen cookies.