Swedish Macaroon Tea Thimbles

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups cake flour, sifted
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 1/4 cups blanched almonds, ground
• 1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring

Recipe

• 1 for the crusts, cream thoroghly butter and sugar. beat in egg and vanilla. stir in flour.
• 2 drop rounded teaspoonfuls into greased mini muffin cups.
• 3 press dough over bottom and around sides making a cup about 1/4 inch thick. leave center hollow. chill.
• 4 heat oven to 325 degrees. assemble filling.
• 5 in a bowl, beat eggs until light and foamy.
• 6 gradually beat in sugar until well blended.
• 7 mix in almonds and almond flavoring.
• 8 remove cups from refrigerator and spoon filling into hollows.
• 9 bake 25-30 minutes until delicately browned and set.
• 10 cool.