Larry’s Favorite Sugar Cookies
1 ½ cup butter
1 ½ cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla
2 tbsp milk
4 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
Cream butter, sugar and
eggs. Add remaining ingredients. Mix to make dough. Roll on lightly floured board. Roll 1/4 thick and cut into rounds. Bake
at 350◦ about 10 minutes. Remove from cookie sheets to cool.
Option: For almond cookies
use equal parts vanilla and almond extract. Press an almond half into the cookies
before you bake. You can sprinkle sugar or cookie decorating sprinkles on top if desired.
Eggless Sugar Cookies
¾ tsp salt
1 cup butter & 1 cup
sugar
2 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour
4 ½ tsp baking powder
Cream 1st 4 ingredients.
Mix flour and baking powder. Add to creamed ingredients. Roll dough on floured board to ¼” thick. Cut in rounds or shapes
with cookie cutters. Bake on unbuttered cookie sheets at 350◦ for 8-10 minutes.
