Cream butter, sugar, food coloring and flavoring. Stir in flour; mix thoroughly. Shape as directed below; use 2 teaspoons of dough. Place on ungreased baking sheet; chill 30 minutes. Bake at 300° for 30 minutes. Do not brown. Makes 2 to 2 1/2 dozen.
Colors and Shapes for dough:
Yellow Dough: (2 to 3 drops coloring):
- Bananas
- Pears (cinnamon stem, add a blush spot with diluted red, use leaf or cinnamon bark for stem)
- Peaches (cloves for blossom, blush spot with diluted red)
Red Dough: (4 to 5 drops)
- Apples (use leaf or cinnamon bark for stem, clove for blossom, add red blush spot)
- Strawberries (use toothpick to puncture for texture, roll on red sugar, use green toothpick or leaf for stem)
- Cherries (roll into 3 small balls, add cinnamon bark for stem)
Orange Dough: 3 drops red and 2 drops yellow
- Orange (roll on grater for texture, add clove for blossom)
- Apricots (same as orange only smaller)
Green Dough: 2 to 3 drops
- Apples (use red blush, cinnamon bark for stem)
- Grapes (shape into small balls, put 3, then 2, then 1 and push together to make cluster, cinnamon or leaf for stem. Miniature cloth leaves may be purchased at cake decorating supply store.)