Almond Butter Cookies

These are the very best cookies. This recipe for Nut-Edged Butter Slices was ripped from a newspaper years ago and now it will forever be online. In the picture, they are the ones between the trail of fudge and the cookies with the sprinkled green sugar. And really, they are just fabulous.

1/2 cup butter
2/3 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoons milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp almond flavoring
1 and 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup finely chopped almonds, toasted
3 tablespoons sugar
1 slightly beaten egg white

Cream butter and the 2/3 cup sugar. Beat in yolk, milk, and flavorings. Sift dry ingredients together and gradually add to creamed mixture. On wax paper, roll dough into a log (or two logs). Chill an hour. Combine almonds and the 3 tablespoons of sugar. Roll dough log in egg white and then in almond mixture. Cut in slices. Bake at 350 til done.