Sugar Cookies For Charishma

Total Time: 52 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 7 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/3 cup butter, softened
• 1/3 cup shortening
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• icing
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 tablespoon milk or 1 tablespoon orange juice

Recipe

• 1 cream butter and shortening together, add sugar, baking powder and a dash of salt.
• 2 beat until combined, scraping bowl.
• 3 add egg and vanilla.
• 4 beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer.
• 5 stir in remaining flour.
• 6 cover and chill for 3 hours or until easy to handle.
• 7 on a lightly floured surface, roll half of the dough at a time to 1/8" thick.
• 8 cut into shapes with a cookie cutter.
• 9 place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• 10 in a conventional oven bake at 375f 7-8 minutes or until edges are firm and bottoms are slightly browned.
• 11 cool on a wire rack, or on waxed paper on the countertop.
• 12 frost with icing when cooled.
• 13 for a convection oven, i have seen that you would bake them on 325f for 7-8 minutes.
• 14 if you take them out and let them sit on the pan for a minute, they will continue to cook.
• 15 i usually take mine out a bit early, when they look like they aren't quite done yet.
• 16 this lets them stay soft and chewy.
• 17 another tip is to drop the pan flat onto the counter after removing from the oven, this helps to spread them out so they aren't so puffed up.
• 18 for the icing, just mix the 3 ingredients together until it is a good spreading consistency, adding extra milk 1 teaspoon at a time.
• 19 add a drop of food coloring.