Instructions: Prepare 1 recipe Basic Holiday Cookie Dough, with the following changes: Substitute 3/4 tsp. almond extract for vanilla; stir 1/2 cup finely chopped pistachio nuts and green food coloring into dough. Prepare 1 recipe Basic Holiday Cookie Dough with the following changes: Subsitute 1/4 cup packed brown sugar for 1/4 cup granulated; add 2 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder to flour. Wrap each dough in plastic wrap; refrigerate until chilled. roll out half the chocolate dough on floured waxed paper to 10x7" rectangle. Repead with half the pistachio dough. Place pistachio dough on top of chocolate.

Peel off top paper. Starting with long side, roll up dough tightly, jelly-roll fahion, using bottom paper as guide and removing paper as you roll. Wrap; chill. Repat with remaining doughs. Cut into 1/4" thick slices.

Place on baking sheets. Bake in 350 F. oven for 10-12 minutes. Cool on racks.

Makes 7 1/2 dozen cookies

NOTES : (#) All cookies made with the Basic Holiday Cookies mix are marked

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