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DESCRIPTION: Beautifully decorated fruit miniatures made of a butter-almond dough.
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Cream butter and sugar.
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Stir in flour and almond extract until mixture looks like meal.
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Divide into 4 equal parts.
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Color one part of dough red, one green and one yellow and one orange.
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Shape cookies as described below.
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Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
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Bake 30 minutes or until set but not brown.
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RED DOUGH: Shape into apples and strawberries.
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APPLES: Form small balls.
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Insert a tiny piece of cinnamon stick into top as a stem and a whole clove in the bottom as the blossom end.
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For blush: Dilute a bit of red food color with water and brush over balls.
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STRAWBERRIES: Shape dough into small, heart-shaped balls.
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For texture, prick with the blunt end of a toohpick.
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Roll each berry in red sugar.
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Form stem and collar-like leaf with pieces of green dough.
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YELLOW DOUGH: Shape into Bananas and Pears.
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BANANAS: Shape dough into rolls, tapering ends.
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Flatten tops slightly to make plans of banana and curve each slightly.
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Paint on inchstripes inch with diluted green food color.
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PEARS: Shape dough into small pear shapes.
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Insert small piece of cinnamon stick in narrow end for stem, clove in bottom.
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Brush diluted red color on inchcheeks.
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inch ORANGE DOUGH: Shape into Apricots and Oranges.
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APRICOTS: Shape dough into small balls.
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Make a crease down one side of each with a wooden pick.
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Insert a whole clove in each for stem.
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Brush with diluted red color.
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ORANGES: Shape dough int small balls.
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Insert whole clove in each for inchblossom inch end.
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prick all over with wooden toothpick to make skin textured.
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GREEN DOUGH: Shape into apples and green peas.
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APPLES: See directions for red apples.
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GREEN PEAS: Form dough into 1 1/2 inch rounds.
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Divide a rounded teaspoonful of dough into five small inchballs inch or inchpeas.
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inch Place inchpeas inch in a row on each round, then fold up bottom half of round so inchpeas inch are peeking out.
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Pinch ends together to secure.
