Sand Tarts

After my interesting quinoa cookies I decided to stick to a home recipe that I know is good. Although sand tarts aren't necessarily a Christmas cookie, my family always has them at Christmas and rarely at any other time of year. As I said this is a recipe we've had in the recipe book forever so I don't know where it came from originally.

Ingredients:
1lb softened butter
1 1/3 cup brown sugar
1 1/3 cup granulated sugar
2 tsps. almond extract
2 eggs
4 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda

Directions:
1. Mix ingredients well and spoon into mini muffin pans
2. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes at 325F

Filling:
Mix together:
1 cup unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
1 tbsp. instant coffee with water


They turned out great and tasted awesome. The filling recipe mentioned is the one I used, but really any flavour of icing can be used, sometimes we do mint and use food colouring to make it green which is a little bit more Christmas-y,  but personally I like the coffee flavouring. You can also add sprinkles, I added a sliver ball to each.