(NOTE: look at that tinsel !)
Here's her recipe for sugar cookies:
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup softened butter
2 eggs, slightly beaten
Cream together butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Sift together dry ingredients. Stir flour mixture into creamed mixture in 3 increments for easier mixing. (NOTE: if dough is too sticky or wet, add more flour as needed). Chill dough overnight.
Let dough come back to room temperature and roll out 1/4 inch thick. Cut with cookie cutters and bake in a 350 degree oven for 10-15 minutes (until edges are brown). Cool complete and decorate with simple frosting of powdered sugar thinned with milk (you can add a bit of vanilla if you want too).
Add sprinkles and it's Christmas!
3 comments:
You left out the part about a small amount missing the next morning - with strange spoon marks in the refrigerated dough.
The cookies are always fabulous! I remember grandma wearing an apron and using a cane.
Not sure how grandma put her tinsel on the tree but I remember mom putting it on strand by strand. I bet that if their cat wasn't so distructive they would still have a tree each year.
Oh, that photo is to die for! I love sugar coookies. My mom makes some very similar to these except that we add butter to the frosting! You really have me craving these now!
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