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Sugar Cookies and Frosting

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These cookies are soft and plump.  Should be called a flour cookie because they need frosting.  Here's a pic of our Halloween ones (with runny frosting):

Cookie-
1 ½ cups sugar
1 cup butter
½ cup shortening
Mix well.  Then add:
2 eggs
1 cup milk
2 Tbsp. vanilla
Mix well.  Then add:
1 tsp. soda dissolved in ¼ cup warm water
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
4 cups flour
Mix, mix, mix!  Then add:
1 ½ to 2 cups more flour until dough is a little stiff but still sticky. Chill 1-2 hours in fridge.  Divide, or take a clump, and knead a little more flour in if needed on a floured surface and roll out to almost the thickness of a cookie cutter height (guesstimate). Cut out shapes. Bake at 375° for 8-11 minutes, not browning on top.
Makes 30+ depending on cookie cutter size.

Frosting
3 ¼ to 3 ½ cups cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup softened butter
1 tsp. almond extract OR vanilla
¼ cup warmed milk

Mix and add powdered sugar to desired consistency.
Frost cookies immediately and frosting will glaze over
with time so cookies can be packaged or stacked between
sheets of wax paper and store well.  Frosting can also
be put in fridge and microwaved a little to frost later.
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beth said…
I make sugar cookies every halloween. I love the taste of the cookie with frosting and candy corns on top! I'll have to try this recipe this year.
10/28/2009
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