Sand-Dollar Cookies

As found in the July 2009 Friend.




1 cup margarine or butter, softened
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup milk
3 3/4 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
slivered almonds
1/2 tsp cinnamon, mixed with 3 Tbsp sugar

Mix the margarine and sugar together in a mixing bowl until creamy. Add the eggs, vanilla, and milk, and mix until smooth.

In another bowl, mix the flour, salt, baking soda, and cream of tartar. Add the flour mixture to the margarine mixture. Mix well.

Roll dough into small balls and place them on a cookie sheet. Dip the bottom of a drinking glass in flour, and use it to press the balls of dough into circles about 1/4 inch thick. Press five slivered almonds on each cookie so they look like sand dollars. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.

Bake the cookies at 375 degrees for 7 minutes.