Sugar Cookies

Julie’s Favorite

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Ingredients
1 cup butter flavored Crisco
1 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
5 1/2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
Makes a bunch of cookies – 36??		Ingredients
2 cups butter flavored Crisco
2 cups buttermilk
4 eggs
2 teaspoons baking soda
11 cups flour
4 cups sugar
1 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons vanilla
Makes 2x a bunch of cookies – 72??

Pan: cookie sheet – on parchment paper

Oven: 350′

Time: 10-12 minutes or until very lightly browned around edges.

Cookie cutter for Yellowstone: 32 oz. plastic cup with 3.5 to 4 inch top.

  1. Cream Crisco, eggs, sugar, and vanilla.
  2. Mix dry ingredients together
  3. Mix in buttermilk to creamed ingredients
  4. Mix all ingredients together
  5. Let rest in fridge 1 to 2 hours or over night. The dough needs to be cold.  [I added]
  6. Knead dough like bread dough until well kneaded [I skipped]
  7. Roll out till dough on heavily floured counter top until 1/4 inch thick. (filled cookies 3/16)
  8. Cut out cookies using a glass for round cookies or cookie cutters
  9. Place on parchment paper on cookie sheet, do not crowd!
  10. Bake 10 to 12 minutes.
  11. Cool completely on parchment paper on table

Sugar Cookie Buttercream Frosting

[Toni did not include a frosting recipe]

1/2 cup [1 cube] butter, softened.

¼ teaspoon salt.

up to 4 tablespoons of milk – start with 2 and go from there.

1 teaspoon vanilla.

4 cups powdered sugar- continue to add more until the right consistency for frosting

Frosts about 48 3 inch cookies

Christmas suggestions

  1. round – pink – almond
  2. star – yellow – banana or lemon
  3. candy cane – red – mint
  4. sock – white – coconut
  5. tree – green –
  6. Gingerbread man – brown – black walnut or ginger
  7. bell – blue –
  8. snowman – white –