Neapolitan Cookies for Party Favor

• Line a 9" x 5" loaf pan with parchment or wax paper, extending the paper over the top for easy removing of dough later.
  
  
• Sift flour and baking powder together and set aside.

• Cream butter until fluffy and pale yellow.

• Add sugar and continue beating until the mixture is no longer gritty when rubbing between two fingers.

• Blend in egg, vanilla extract, and salt on low speed.
  
  
• Gradually stir in the flour and baking powder mixture just until blended.

• Divide dough into 3 portions. Add chocolate pieces and chopped pecans in 1 portion, 1 or 2 drops of red food coloring in another, and grated nutmeg in the third.
  
  
• Pack the nutmeg batter into the prepared pan, smooth out the dough with your fingertips.

• Drop pieces of the pink-tinted batter onto the nutmeg layer to cover it, then press into an even layer.
  
  
• Repeat with the chocolate layer

• Fold parchment or wax paper over the top, press to smooth and compress the layers. Refrigerate for at least 24 hours or up to 2 days.
  
  
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F., and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.

• Lift dough out of the pan, invert it onto a wooden board, remove the paper, cut it in half lengthwise with a long and thin knife. Then, cut crosswise into slices ¼-inch thick.

• Place slices on prepared baking sheets, spacing about an inch apart.
  
  
• Bake these party favors for about 15 minutes or until they are set and pale gold on the bottom.

• Cool on baking sheets for a couple of minutes before transferring them to wire racks to cool completely.
  This recipe makes about 4 dozens Neapolitan cookies to serve at your next party or give out as party favors.

This Neapolitan cookie recipe for party favor is in Cookies. Williams-Sonoma Collection. Simon & Schuster.

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