Holiday Thumb Print Cookies

• 1/4 c sugar
• 2 c flour
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 c butter or margarine
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 c finely chopped pecans

Directions:

Cream together sugar and butter.

Beat in flour, vanilla and salt. Stir in pecans.

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased baking sheet and make a thumb print in each cookie.

Bake at 300 F 20 to 30 mins.

Remove to cooling racks and fill each thumb print with red or green frosting (below).

Frosting:

Combine 1 cup powdered sugar with 1/2 tsp. almond extract and enough water to make it right consistency to drop off the tip of a spoon.

Color one 1/2 red and the other 1/2 green.

Makes 3 dozen.