Mom's Sugar Cookies!!

My mom makes really awesome sugar cookies (at least to me, they are awesome). To be quite honest, when it comes to my mom’s sugar cookies – it isn’t so much about the cookies, as it is the love and fuzzy warmness I associate with them.

We always always always, make sugar cookies at Christmas time. We make trees and santas and snowmen, mittens, stars and candy canes. We have a ridiculous amount of Christmas cookie cutters – and every year we decide which special ones we will use. My mom typically does the baking and I do the decorating. I try to make every cookie unique – she thinks I’m crazy for this – but I love it. I even make little faces on each and every snowman.

These sugar cookies also make appearances at most major holidays. I remember coming downstairs on Valentine’s day and finding a plate of heart shaped cookies, opening care packages while I was away at school and finding a container full of pumpkins and ghosts for Halloween. We even made little wedding cake cookies for the favors for my bridal shower.

Most recently, I made pink ribbon sugar cookies for a co-worker of mine who has recently finished her breast cancer treatments. We had a surprise pink dessert bar for her at work.

So, I am going to share with you my mom’s sugar cookie recipe. However, as I’m typing this, I’m trying to decide if I’m going to add in all the little tips and tricks we’ve learned over the years, or if you should have to figure those out for yourselves, too.


Mom’s Sugar Cookies

Ingredients1 1/2 cups butter, softened
2 cups white sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt


Directions
In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth.
Beat in eggs and vanilla.
Stir in the flour (one cup at a time), baking powder, and salt.
Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
Roll out dough on floured surface (about ½ inch thick)
Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter.
Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely.


The Icing
The icing is really simple. It is just your basic powdered sugar, vanilla and milk frosting. We usually color it. I can’t really tell you how much of what to use when – just fill a bowl with the powdered sugar, add a little vanilla and add milk (little by little) until you reach a desired consistency.

Alright, so I didn't give you all the tips and tricks, but I am quite certain that you'll figure it out all on your own. <3