Windmill Bar Cookies Recipe 9

The kids were craving a sweet, satisfying afternoon snack today. It's still really cold in our area of the country, so I decided to use the oven. The recipe was found in the Taste of Home Cookies and Bars, January 10, 2005 magazine.

Ingredients:
1 cup butter, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 egg, seperated
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup almonds, sliced (I didn't have sliced almonds, so I chopped up whole almonds)

Cream butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Add egg yolk and mix well. Add flour, cinnamon, baking soda. Mix until crumbly.



Press mixture into 15x10-inch greased pan.



Wash with egg white and sprinkle on almonds. Bake in 350 degree oven for 20-25 minutes. Remove from oven and let rest for 10 minutes. Slice into bars.



These were wonderful. They remind me a little of the Swedish Tea Cakes my family makes at Christmas, without the powder sugar. Even my non-cookie eating child really loved the taste and texture of these. YUM!