Victory Sugar Cookies:Cream together: 1 cup butter and 2/3 cup sugar
Beat in: 1 egg
Combine and Add: 1 tsp. vanilla, 1/2 tsp. salt, and 2 1/2 cups flour
Mix until all ingredients are well blended. Chill dough 3-4 hours before rolling. Preheat oven to 350. Bake 8-10 minutes or until barely colored. Frost cookies.
Frosting: 3/4 cup powdered sugar, 1 Tbsp. butter, 1 Tbsp. milk, 1/2 tsp. vanilla, 1/4 tsp lemon juice
Combine. Beat until smooth. Add food coloring. (I love this frosting - it's really more of a glaze and slightly hardens on the cookies so you can stack them on top of each other without the frosting coming off).
Chocolate Nutbutter Cookies
1 1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1/2 cup baking cocoa
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup milk
- Heat oven to 400.
- Beat sugar, shortening and peanut butter until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and eggs.
- Stir together flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Beat into sugar mixture alternately with milk.
- Drop cookie dough onto greased baking sheet. Flatten in crisscross pattern with a fork dipped in flour.
- Bake 6-10 minutes or until bottoms are light brown.
