Cut-Out Sugar Cookies

• Refrigerated

  • 2 Eggs

• Baking & Spices

  • 4 cups All-purpose flour
  • 3 tsp Baking powder
  • 1 1/3 cups Butter shortening
  • 1 tsp Clear vanilla
  • 1 cup Powdered sugar
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1 1/2 cups Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract

• Dairy

  • 1 tbsp Butter
  • 6 tbsp Milk

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Directions

• In a large mixing bowl, mix together the shortening, sugar, milk and vanilla using an electric mixer. Mix until smooth. Then stir in eggs. Combine well.
• In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Stir well using a fork.
• Gently add in flour to your shortening mixture. Adding a little flour at a time. Mix just until both mixtures are combined.
• Put the dough balls into your fridge to chill for at least an hour.
• When dough is ready, preheat oven to 375F degrees.
• Spray a couple baking sheets with nonstick cooking spray.
• Spread some flour all over your counter.
• Working with one dough ball at a time (keep the other one in the fridge), put a little flour on the
• dough itself. And make sure to rub some flour on your rolling pin too.
• Start rolling out dough as evenly as possible. You want the dough to be about 1/4-inch thick. If its too thin then you wont be able to scoop the cookies up without them breaking.
• Using your favorite cookie cutters, start cutting out shapes. Try to get your cookie shapes as close together as possible to make the most use of your dough. You can take the leftover dough and roll it out again for a second cutting. Generally, after the second cutting, the dough is not really useable for a third cutting.
• Lay out cookies on cookie sheet that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
• Spread cookies out about an inch or two apart on the cookie sheet.
• Bake for about 6-8 minutes at 375F degrees.
• Allow cookies to cool completely before icing.
• For the icing: Combine softened butter, powdered sugar, milk and clear vanilla extract.
• Whisk until smooth. If mixture is too thin, just add in a bit more powdered sugar until you get it to the consistency you like. Then add in any food colors you are using. I quadruple this recipe and use four different colors. Gather all your icing, and sprinkles, etc. and have fun.
• Allow the icing to setup on the cookies for a couple of hours then you should be able to stack them and store in an airtight container.

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