Betty Crocker's Butter Cookies
- Ready In:
- 42mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
-
3 dozen
ingredients
- 1 cup softened butter (2 sticks)
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 3 teaspoons flavoring, extract of choice (lemon, vanilla, etc.)
- 3 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
directions
- Mix the butter, sugar, and egg together thoroughly. Stir in the flavoring extract you have chosen.
- Sift the flour and baking powder together and stir inches Chill dough.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Rool dough very thin (1/8-inch) on a floured surface. Use cookie cutters to cut into desired shapes. Place on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake in preheated oven for 5 to 7 minutes. Remove cookies when they are golden not browned. Place sheets of cookies on cooling racks to cool.
- After ten minutes remove cookies from baking sheets and finish cooling on racks.
- Baked, cooled cookies may be frosed with pastel frosting or the frosting may be piped around the edges.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Lorraine of AZ
Scottsdale