These cookies melt in your mouth. The sugar cookie recipe is one that I found in my mom's recipe box and can be found below.

This morning Michigan received it's first snow of the season. Luckly both dumpings were north and south of me. I am not a snow bunny so I don't look forward to sub-zero temps! But, seeing how it looks to be miserable out this weekend maybe I'll make some bananna bread.

Have a great weekend everyone!!!!

Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar, sifted

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon almond extract

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

Royal icing

Cocoa Puffs cereal (a couple of handfulls)

Chocolate for piping

Directions:

In a bowl cream together the sugar and butter then mix in the egg, vanilla and almond extract. In another bowl stir together the flour, baking soda and cream of tartar. Mix the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture then cover and refergerate for 2 to 3 hours or overnight.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Recipe instructions: Divide the chilled dough in half and roll it out on a lightly floured pastry cloth to a 1/4 inch thickness. Lightly grease some baking sheets. Cut the dough with a floured cookie cutter; sprinkle with sugar. Transfer the cookies to the prepared sheets and bake for 9 minutes.

How I prepared: Using a small cookie scoop, scoop the chilled dough out and roll into approximately 1" to 1 1/2" balls. Place the balls onto baking sheets covered with parchment paper. Using the bottom of a glass, dip into sugar and squish down the balls gently. Bake for 9 minutes.

After the cookies are cooled, prepare a batch of Wilton Royal Icing and color 1/2 to 3/4 of the batch orange and 1/4 black (or leave white). Put the frosting into 2 seperate decorator bags. Use the thinned orange Wilton frosting to cover the top of the cookies. Immediately, after covering 5 - 6 cookies, use the black (or white) to make rings on the top of the orange frosting. The frosting colors will merge together. Then immediately draw either a knife or toothpick through the frosting from the center to the edge to make the spider web look.

After this has dried for a few hours you can melt the chocolate and using a disposable pastry bag add the chocolate spider legs immediately putting a Cocoa Puff on top of the soft chocolate. The chocolate will dry quickly.