This is a favorite from early days!! Probably 70's/early '80s.
1 Cup butter
3 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp almond extract
2 cups flour
Set oven to 375. Grease cookie sheet or set with parchment.
Combine butter, sugar, and almond extract. Add flour and work together until it makes a soft dough. Roll dough into balls the size of walnuts. Put them on cookie sheet and press down with thumb (pat level so they're about 1/4 - 12 inch thick. Bake 10 minutes. Cookies whould be light o top and barely brown on bottom. Frost when completely cool.
Frosting:
1 cup confectioners sugar
2 T coco
2 T hot water
1 tsp vanilla
Sliced almonds for top of cookie
(original recipe: 3/4 tsp vanilla, 3 T cocoa powder, 1 1/2 C confec sugar, 3 T hot water)
Mix first 4 ingredients, let cool slightly. Put drop of frosting on cookie, and add sliced almond on top
