silky

This is my grandmothers recipe I believe and this year her arthritis has gotten too bad to make them herself so I made them as a Christmas gift to surprise her with her favorite cookie.
The recipe is pretty simple,
3/4 a cup of butter
1/4 cup of icing sugar
2 cup of flour
1 cup of ground almonds
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
16 oz Candied cherries
You mix together everything except the cherries and then wrap cherries with the dough to make small balls, bake them at 325 for 20 minutes and then when they cool add a basic icing with small slices of candied cherry on top, simple but very hands on. They turned out beautifully

Made these for a Christmas gift, they had to be gluten free so I used a 1-1 gluten free replacement and added just over half a cup of water to help prevent it from drying out too much due to the rice flour sucking up all the moisture in the recipe, they ended up soft but very nice and a good first venture into successful gluten free baking, hopefully they'll be popular on Christmas day

Couldn't find any maraschino cherries with stems but it was fun practicing my chopsticks skills, used a dark Belgian chocolate and they're to die for