Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies
Nice light sugar cookie for the holidays.

Ingredients of Sugar Cookies
* 1 cup Butter softened
* 1 cup Sugar
* 2 Eggs
* 1 tablespoon Water
* 1 teaspoon Vanilla
* 1 teaspoon Baking powder
* 3 cups Flour sifted

Preparation of Sugar Cookies
Cream butter and sugar thoroughly together. Beat eggs until very light. Add to creamed mixture, beat well. Add water and vanilla. To 1/2 cup sifted flour, add baking powder and sift into other ingredients. Beat until light, and then add enough flour to make a soft dough.

At this point, you may leave the dough in the refrigerator overnight.

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

Turn out onto a floured baking board, knead lightly, and roll out very thin. Cut out with cookie cutters and bake in a 450 degree oven for six minutes. They burn very easily. Set timer for six minutes, check, then set for one more minute if needed. Keep this up until they are done and edges turn light gold (not brown!).

Variations of Sugar Cookies:
Use colored sugar, bits of candied cherries or candied pineapple and decorate before baking.

At Valentines, cut out two hearts per cookie. Cover the center of one heart with currant jelly. Cut a hole in the center of theother heart about the size of a quarter and place on top of the other cookie like a tart. Lightly press the edges together. If you get jelly on the edges of the bottom cookie, they will not stick together properly.

For Halloween, cut out in pumpkin shape. After cooking, frost with an orange glaze of powdered sugar and milk. After the glaze dries, make a "paint" of cocoa powder, powdered sugar, and milk. Paint Jack-o-Lantern faces on the pumpkins.

Category: Halloween recipes