TRADITIONAL SUGAR COOKIES Rita DeBry

I have requests for this recipe every year.

It is the best sugar cookie recipe I have ever tasted!

1 cup shortening

½ cup real butter (1 cube) softened

2 cups sugar

4 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

5 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

2 tsp salt

Cream the shortening, butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla well. Mix dry ingredients together and add to creamed mixture. Blend well.

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Roll dough out and cut. (Don’t roll dough too thin!). Bake 6-8 minutes, just until edges are slightly brown. (Do not over bake - this is the secret!) Cool, and frost.

6 dozen

Frosting:

1 cube real butter (softened)

1 egg

½ tsp almond extract

dash of salt

4 cups powdered sugar

Milk

Mix all but the milk together then add enough milk to make a spreading consistency. Tint with food coloring.