Sour Cream Cutout Cookies
Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 c sour cream
2 cups Crisco – the solid, NOT the oil
1 t. salt
1 t. baking soda
1 t. baking powder
6 ½ – 7 cups flour
1 t. vanilla
Directions:
Cream sugar and Crisco.
Add eggs, sour cream and vanilla.
Add salt, baking soda, and baking powder to flour, stir lightly to mix together.
Add dry mixture a cup or so at a time to creamed together mixture.
Refrigerate for several hours.
Roll about ½” thick. Cut with cookie cutters.
Put approximately same size cookies on to ungreased cookie sheets. Do NOT put very large and very small cookies on to the same sheet, in order for the cookies to evenly bake.
Decorate with toppings or leave plain to frost and decorate later.
Bake at 375° for 8 to 10 minutes.
Makes 4 dozen cookies.
This is a fairly large amount of batter. The recipe can be divided in half to make approximately 2 dozen cookies.
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