Mary's Sugar Cookies

A yummy almond-flavored sugar cookie. I didn't like these nearly as much as as . This recipe produces a very crispy cookie, but they were brittle.

I prefer the previous recipe both for its texture (crunchy but still with a slightly soft center) and because it is a more forgivable (less brittle, and easier to come out of the cutter).

The photo shows tiny gnom cookies, less than 1 1/2 inches tall and decorated to show the color spectrum ROYGBIV. 14Daugher of course!