Sugar Cookies & Frosting

Cookies:
1c. butter
1c. sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. Vanilla
3.5 c. flour
1 tsp. Salt
2 tsp. Baking powder

Cream butter & sugar, add eggs & vanilla, add flour, salt, & baking powder. Chill dough for 1 hour or more. Roll out to ½” thickness and cut out. Bake at 400 for about 10 minutes – remove before the edges turn brown.

Frosting: (enough for a few of the above batches!)
2# powdered sugar
¾ c. Crisco
2/3 c. water
¼-1/2 tsp. Butter flavor
1-2 drops vanilla
pinch salt

Whip all ingredients together until light & fluffy.


Kim Butler
Archivist/Associate Director of Archives