instructions
Preheat oven to 400°F.
In large bowl, cream butter and sugar with electric mixer. Beat in egg, vanilla and almond extracts.
Combine flour and baking powder; add to butter mixture 1 cup at time, mixing well after each addition.
The dough will be very stiff; if necessary, blend last flour in by hand (if dough becomes too stiff, add water a teaspoon at a time). Do not chill dough.
Divide dough into two balls. On a floured surface, roll each ball into a circle approximately 12 inches in diameter and 1/4 inch thick.
Dipping cutters into flour before each use, cut out acorns, hearts (cut off pointed bottom to make rounded apple; make "stem" from cut scraps and attach to top), pumpkin and oak and maple leaves.
Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet for 6-7 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. Cool completely on wire rack before decorating.
To Decorate:
Apple - Using a disposable decorating bag, outline cookie with stiff Color Flow icing (Follow instructions on Color Flow Mix can to make icing; tint as desired.) Fill in apple and stem with thinned Color Flow icing. (To thin add warm water a teaspoon at a time, until desired consistency is reached.)
Acorn - Using stiff Color Flow icing, outline body of acorn; fill in with thinned Color Flow icing. Using stiff consistency Color Flow icing and tip 16, decorate cap of acorn with stars.
Pumpkin - Using Royal icing (Recipe follows) and tip 12, pipe lines on pumpkin. With stiff consistency Color Flow icing and tip 2, outline stem; fill in stem with thinned Color Flow icing.
Grapes - On oak leaf cookies, outline grape leaves on stem end of the cookie with stiff Color Flow icing and tip 2; fill in with thinned Color Flow icing. Using Royal icing and tip 10, pipe ball "grapes" over remaining cookie.
Leaves - Using stiff consistency Color Flow icing and tip 2, outline remaining leaves. Fill in with thinned Color Flow icing. Using second color of thinned Color Flow icing, pipe lines in leaf; using toothpick, drag contrasting Color Flow lines to create veins in leaf.
Allow cookies to dry overnight.