Empire Cookies Recipe by Penny

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Ingredients

½ cup + 2 Tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature
½ cup + 2 Tbsp icing sugar, sifted
1 hard-boiled large egg yolk
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ¾ cups cake and pastry flour, sifted
1 cup icing sugar, sifted
¼ teaspoon almond or vanilla extract
6-8 glacée (candied) cherries, each chopped into 6
bits
Tender Heart Dough Instructions
1. Beat the butter and icing
to about ¼-inch thick and cut out cookies using a 2-inch fluted cookie cutter,
the icing sugar with 1 Tbsp of water and the almond or vanilla extract and add the