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St. Patrick’s Day is next Wednesday and I’m getting ready. I baked some Irish Soda Bread, did you know that it wasn’t originated by the Irish, and these yummy little Shamrock Almond Cookies just melt in your mouth.
A couple months ago, when I received my wall calendar from Pillsbury, and was flipping through the months, I spotted a recipe for Almond Sandwich Cookies with pink filling. Well, I got busy sharing other treats and food for Valentine’s Day and didn’t get them baked, so I knew exactly what I wanted to bake for St. Patrick’s Day, but with green filling, of course.
The recipe called for refrigerated sugar cookie dough, which I didn’t want to use, so I set out to find an Almond Cookie dough recipe. The very first place I headed was my friend, Bridget over at Bake at 350 (if you haven’t visited Bridget, run fast…she is amazing!), and I was excited to find that she uses a Vanilla Almond Sugar Cookie for many of her cut out cookies. I followed her recipe exactly…
Shamrock Almond Cookies from HoosierHomemade.com are perfect for your St. Patrick's Day celebrations!
Ingredients
- 3 cups Flour, all-purpose
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1 cup Sugar
- 2 sticks Butter
- 1 Egg
- 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 teaspoon Almond Extract
- 4 cups Powdered Sugar (I ended up using about 3 cups and the filling was pretty stiff)
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) Butter, softened
- 4 teaspoons Milk
- 1/2 teaspoon Almond Extract
- 1 drop Green Food Color
Instructions
- Combine the flour and baking powder, set aside.
- Cream the sugar and butter.
- Add egg and extracts, mix well.
- Gradually add the flour mixture and beat until well combined.
- Roll out dough and cut out shapes.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes, if you like a soft sugar cookie, bake a little shorter, if you like a crisp cookie, bake a little longer.
- Beat butter until fluffy, gradually add a small amount of powdered sugar at a time, alternating with milk and almond extract.
- I mixed it like I do my Buttercream Frosting.
I wanted to add a little something to the top and had seen the amazing dessert that Amanda at I Am Baker made, but wanted to stay with the green theme. So, I used some of the filling, added a bit more green food color and a dab more of milk, heated it in the microwave. After mixing well, I filled my Wilton Plastic bottle to be able to drizzle with ease. I also sprinkled on some green sugar on the edge.
I couldn’t stop with just the little sandwich cookies, I cut out some larger ones too. I was excited when my son found 7 different shamrock cookie cutters in my basket. I also used them for my St. Patrick’s Garland.
I frosted some with the filling and some with the darker green filling, using the same method I use on Sugar Cookies with Almond Bark.
Are you baking for St. Patrick’s Day? Or have a special meal planned? I’d love to hear about it. 
This post linked to:
~Potluck Sunday hosted by Mommy’s Kitchen
~St. Patrick’s Day Party hosted by Cuisine Kathleen
~Finer Things Friday hosted by The Finer Things in Life
~St. Patrick’s Day Party hosted by Created by Diane
~Food on Friday hosted by Ann Kroeker
Oh these look adorable Liz! We’ve been talking about making green shamrock cookies – my boys LOVE to help roll out the dough!
Happy St Pats!
So festive, they look great!
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These look yummy! I’m visiting you back from Tip Junkie! Thanks for stopping by my blog! I’d love for you to join my first linky party tomorrow (Friday). Come plant a creative seed at my “Plant a Punkin Seed Party”!
Kristi
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Those look so yummy. Thanks for the recipe. My family would love these.
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How festive!!
Those look so good. I love sugar cookies, especially the ones covered in frosting.
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Those look delicious! Hmmm, hadn’t planned on baking for St. Patty’s day…but it seems, we bake on a whim anyway so who knows. Maybe I’ll have some green beer…does that count, tee hee
Jamie
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Oh the love and care that you put into these is amazing. I soooo love a good cookie! I wish I ad the patience to make these. Thanks for coming by my little place in blogville.
These look adorable and delicious! Yum!
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These are so cute!
@Lynn, Thanks Lynn! I’m so glad you stopped by!
~Liz
Those look delicious! Thanks so much for visiting and commenting on my blog!! I really appreciate it!
Those look like so much fun. Wish you were my neighbor so I could send my kids to your house for cookies.
Oh! These look yummy!
Thanks for stopping by. I actually just started the Friday Favorites a couple of weeks ago. Would love for you to come and link up with us!
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@Jerri, Thanks for the invite! I planned on doing it earlier today and my time got away from me.
~Liz
Cute, cute, cute! My kids would love this!
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They look so yummy!!! Thanks so much for linking to Bake at 350! I’m so happy you liked the cookies! I’m making some today!!!
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@bridget {bake at 350}, Yum! I hope you are sharing!
~Liz
All your Irish treats look delicious! Thanks for sharing them, and thanks so much for joining the Blog Crawl!
Happy St. Patrick;s Day!
@Cuisine Kathleen,Thanks for stopping by! I loved visiting your party!
~Liz
I love your recipe and I love anything that is almond! Joni
Almond cookies…delicious. I love that they are shamrock sandwich cookies!
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These cookies look so cute and festive! They sound delicious too. Thank you. Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
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Oh my these cookies do look tasty!!! Wising you well!
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These look delicious. Thanks for sharing the recipe!!
Happy St. Paddy’s Day!
xoxo
Jane
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