Lannette's Holiday Sugar Cookies

Total Time: 27 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 7 mins

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup shortening
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
• 2 cups flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 4 teaspoons milk
• 1/2 of 16 ounce box powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons heavy cream (or more to make of spreading consistency)

Recipe

• 1 cream together shortening and sugar.
• 2 add egg and vanilla and almond extracts. beat well.
• 3 sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
• 4 stir dry ingredients into creamed mixture.
• 5 add 4 teaspoons milk. and stir till blended.
• 6 divide dough in half and chill 1 hour.
• 7 roll to 1/4 inch thickness on a floured board. cut with floured cookie cutters. place on ungreased cookie sheet.
• 8 or scoop and drop rounded teaspoons-full or small sized cookie scoops onto ungreased cookie sheet.
• 9 bake at 375 for 7 to 10 minutes, or till edges of cookies are slightly brown.
• 10 frost completely cooled cookies with buttercream frosting.
• 11 buttercream frosting:.
• 12 beat together all frosting ingredients. (start with 2 tablespoons cream, and if needed, add more cream 1 teaspoon at a time till frosting is of desired spreading consistency).