Star Sugar Cookies

Submitted by Para_chan

"I found a recipe book hidden in my room and wanted to save the recipes."

 

• Ready In: 18mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 4 dozen
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla or 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
• 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt

directions

1. Mix together shortening, sugar, eggs and vanilla/lemon extract.
2. Mix in a separate bowl, flour, baking powder and salt.
3. Mix 1 and 2 together.
4. Cover, chill at least one hour.
5. Roll and use star-shaped cookie cutters.
6. Bake 6-8 minutes in preheated 400º oven on ungreased baking sheet.

Reviews

[Jadelabyrinth]

The dough was a bit wet and I had to re-chill halfway through the baking process. The stars spread more than I would have liked resulting in pretty rounded points, especially the longer the dough was out of the refrigerator. The warmer it became the harder it was to transfer the cut-outs to the cookie sheet too, so I have some stars that are not very star shaped at all. I got 37 cookies.