Instructions: Cream together butter and almond butter. Add vanilla, brown sugar and gran.sugar. Cream until mixture is light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix together flour, baking soda and a pinch of salt. Add to butter mixture, beating until well combined. Drop tsps of dough 3 inches apart on greased baking sheets. Flatten cookies with thumb or wet bottom of juice glass until they are 1/4 inch thick. Bake in 350 oven 12 to 14 minutes or until pale golden. Cool on racks. Spread the bottoms of 1/2 the cookies with preserves. Top each bottom with another cookie top side up. Dust with confectioners sugar.

These are really easy to make, look very professional, and freeze well. If you freeze them, dust with xxx sugar when thawed. Janet in Dallas

your art. Wish I could do it. This is one of our favorite, really simple desserts. It goes back to when our children were little.

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