Can Do It Cookie Dough

4 eggs

1 1/3 cup each shortening,butter

3 cup sugar

7 cup flour

4 tsp baking powder

2 tsp salt

4 tsp vanilla

Cream all wet ingredients.  Mix all dry ingredients. Add to creamed ingredients to make dough.  This is a basic sugar cookie type dough.  Roll 1/4" thick and cut out.  Bake on unbuttered cookie sheets at 350' for 8-10 minutes.

Variations:

Divide dough into fourths.  Add1/4 to 1/2 cup of any of the following:

chocolate chips

butterscotch chips

m&m's

nuts

coconut

raisins

dried chopped fruit

cocoa

You can substitute any flavor extract for part or all of the vanilla.

Bake as above.