Chocolate Chip Almond Cookies

Chocolate Chips in an almond cookie.
These are so good you'll want to make
a batch and give them away as gifts.

Ingredients:
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1/3 cup sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1-2 teaspoons pure almond extract
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup miniature chocolate chips

Directions:
Cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer
until light and fluffy, then beat in flour,
almond extract to taste, and salt.
Stir in the chocolate chips by hand.
Wrap dough in plastic wrap
and chill for at least 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
Shape 1/2 tablespoon amounts of dough
into 1 1/2-inch-long "fingers" and
place them on ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake cookies 1 sheet at a time in middle
of oven for 20 to 25 minutes,
watching carefully and breaking open
a couple of cookies to check for doneness.
The cookies should be firm
to the touch and cooked through, but not brown;
the bottoms should only be golden.
Cool cookies on racks and store them
in an airtight container, where they will
keep for 2 weeks but will vanish long before that.