Old Fashioned Butter Cookies Recipe

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Servings: 1

Ingredients

  • 3 c. Pillsbury's Best All Purpose Flour*, sifted
  • 1 tsp Double-acting baking pwdr
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1 c. Butter
  • 3/4 c. Sugar
  • 1 x Egg, unbeaten
  • 2 Tbsp. Cream or possibly lowfat milk
  • 1 1/2 tsp French's Vanilla
  •     French's Colored Sugars or possibly Cake
  •     Decorations or possibly plain sugar

Directions

  1. BAKE at 400 degrees for 5 to 8 min.
  2. MAKES about 7 to 8 dozen. Sifttogether flour, baking pwdr and salt. Cream butter. Gradually add in sugar, creaming well. Stir in egg, cream or possibly lowfat milk and vanilla; mix well. Blend in the dry ingredients gradually. If you like, refrigeratedough 1 hour for easier handling. Roll out dough on floured surface, one-third at a time, to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters or possibly pastry wheel. Place on ungreased baking sheets. Sprinkle with colored sugars or possibly cake decorations or possibly plain sugar. Bake in moderately warm oven (400 degrees)
  3. 5 to 8 min till delicate golden.*For use with Pillsbury's Best Self-Rising Flour, omit baking pwdr and salt.
  4. For Christmas Trees, bells or possibly other Christmas shapes add in a few drops of French's Red or possibly Green Food Coloring. For Christmas Silhouettes, add in a few drops of French's Red or possibly Green Food Coloring to half the dough. Leave remaining dough plain. Roll out white dough on floured surface to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut into rounds with 3 or possibly 4-inch cutter. Cut out centers of cookie with a smaller Christmas-shaped cutter. Repeat with colored dough.
  5. Transfer white centers to colored rounds and colored centers to white rounds.

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