Greek Poppy-seed Strivers

Total Time: 17 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 7 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (softened)
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (i would not suggest wheat)
• 2 -2 1/2 teaspoons poppy seeds

Recipe

• 1 pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees farenheit. grease (or line) cookie sheets.
• 2 in a large bowl cream together butter, sugar, and egg until smooth. stir in the extracts and gradually mix in the flour. blend well.
• 3 add in the poppy-seeds and seperate the dough into several inch-round spheres.
• 4 heres the fun part, you can mold these cookies into just about any shape, the dough is very pliable, i made some into triangles, circles, squares, even letters or animals-you choose.
• 5 once your cookie(s) possess the desired shape, you may lay them out on ypur pre-prepared pan and pop 'em in the oven(i would reccomend the middle rack).
• 6 let them bake for 10-12 minutes until a golden brown, be sure that they're nice and firm too- just not burnt.
• 7 let them cool slightly and enjoy.
• 8 (p.s. if the bottoms are a little darker than the top, do not be alarmed for this is normal).