Sugar Cookies With Buttercream Frosting
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
20 cookies
ingredients
-
Sugar Cookies
- 118.29 ml shortening
- 1 egg
- 4.92 ml vanilla
- 236.59 ml sugar
- 473.18 ml flour
- 4.92 ml baking powder
- 2.46 ml salt
- 44.37 ml milk
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Buttercream Frosting
- 78.78 ml butter or 78.78 ml margarine, softened
- 709.77 ml confectioners' sugar
- 7.39 ml vanilla
- 29.58 ml milk
directions
- Cream together shortening, egg, vanilla and sugar.
- In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture in three phases, alternating with the three tablespoons of milk.
- Chill in the refrigerator for at least 20 minutes. At this point the dough can be kept overnight in the fridge or for several months in the freezer.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Flour a smooth surface, and roll the dough to 1/4 inch, working with about half the dough at a time. Put the remaining dough in the fridge to stay chilled. Cut out the cookies with cookie cutters of your choice.
- Place cut-out cookies on a cookie sheet, and bake for 8-10 minutes.
- Allow cookies to cool before decorating with frosting.
- Buttercream Frosting: Cream softened butter and sugar. Beat in vanilla and milk, adding milk by teaspoons and beating until frosting is smooth and of desired spreading consistency.
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