A little Valentine gift from us to you--our favorite sugar cookie recipe. Try it. You will LOVE it, too!
2 eggs1 cup REAL butter
1 ½ cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup sour cream
5 cups flour (plus 1-2 for later)*
2 T baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
Preheat oven to 350. Cream butter and sugar, and add eggs one at a time. Add vanilla, one cup flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt then add remaining 4 cups of flour. Mixture will appear dry, once mixed add sour cream, mixture will become very wet. Using a generous amount of flour, roll out cookie dough to ½ inch and cut using cookie cutters in any shape desired.
Bake cookies 10-12 minutes. The trick to moist cookies is to not let them get brown at the edges.
Pink Frosting
Add in this order:
¾ cup butter (add some cream cheese, too . . . for an extra zip)
Mix so that it is soft
6 c. powdered sugar
Turn mixer on low and slowly add…1 tsp vanilla--I usually add almond extract, too!
Mix for 10 seconds and slowly drizzle 2 drops red food coloring
4-6 T milk
Start with 4 tablespoons of milk. If the mixture isn’t coming together add the next tablespoon and increase the mixer speed for about 30 seconds. If the frosting is still dry add more milk. Adding too much milk can cause the frosting to become pasty.
