thebabyperks

Yay for snow days even though it's Saturday. Swim practice got cancelled last night, which allowed me to curl up on the couch and watch Christmas movies and all my recorded One Direction shows/interviews.

My Great Aunt made a cookbook by hand, not just a few pages stapled together. It has over a hundred pages (or at least it seems like it is), the recipes are divided by holiday/type of food/etc. She obviously put a lot of time into it and I've found some great recipes.

#1: Sugar Cookies:
Ingredients:
1/2 c. butter softened
1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 large eggs
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
2 3/4 c. flour

Frosting:
1 c. Crisco
2 lbs powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2-3/4 c. water

Instructions:
1) Mix together all ingredients
2) Roll out dough and cut into shapes (it is that easy!!)
3) Bake at 375 for 10-15 (check them because mine were done around 9-10)
4) After taking the cookies out of the oven, let cool
5) Mix frosting ingredients until fluffy
6) Decorate the cookies!! :)

~I thought the cookies were a little dry, but the frosting worked perfectly and brought the cookies back (does that make sense??)
~ I didn't make that many cookies so I halved the icing recipe