Holiday Sugar Cookies (from my friend Lyndsey, The Paper Girl)
1 cup butter (2 sticks)
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp almond extract
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cream of tartar
1/4 tsp salt
* Mix the butter, egg, vanilla and almond extract together in one bowl with electric mixer or hand mixer
* In another bowl, mix the dry ingredients together
* Combine the wet and Dry ingredients.
* Roll dough onto a solid-surface counter or onto wax paper. Roll out. And start cutting shapes. Shamrocks:
and coins:
Place them on a NON-stick baking sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 7-8 Minutes. Cool before frosting.
Sugar Cookie FROSTING
1/2 cup shortening
5 Tbl milk
2 T almond extract
1 1/2 lbs (or appx 6 cups) Powdered sugar
dash of salt
1 tsp vanilla
food coloring
This will be more frosting than you need, but 1/2 the recipe didn’t seem like quite enough. So….make crackers and frosting with the leftovers!
Okay, mix all the ingredients in an electric mixer or with a hand mixer.
Add your favorite food coloring. Wilton makes wonderful products. But I only had the cheap stuff on-hand: