Ingredients
1 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 1/3 cups finely chopped walnuts
1/4 cup maple syrup
Red and Green candied cherries
Directions
Beat butter with sugar until fluffy-light in a large bowl. Beat in egg and vanilla. Stir in flour, a third at a time, blending well to make a soft dough .Measure out 1/3 cup of the dough and mix with walnuts and maple syrup in a small bowl; reserve for centers in next step.
Put dough in a cookie press fitted with a small star tip or wreath shaped pattern. Press out wreaths on greaseless large cookie sheets; fill center of each cookie with nut mixture; decorate wreaths with slivers of red and green candied cherries.
Bake in a moderate oven at 350 degrees for 12 minutes, or until lightly golden at edges. Remove carefully from cookie sheets to wire racks, cool completely.
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