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  • Mary's Sugar Cookies*

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    Mary's Sugar Cookies*
    Prep: 60 min Cook: 7 min Servings: 30
    by Julia Ann Souders
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    An easy rolled sugar cookies with creamy icing to enjoy for any holiday. Make them as shamrocks for March 17, hearts for valentines, pumpkins for Holloween and stars for Christmas. *This is a recipe from Betty Crocker's Cooky Book, 1971. 2007-2014 Netta Belle's Choice cookbookinabox "Reg. U.S. Pat. & Trdmk. Off." All rights reserved.

    Ingredients

    • Cookies:
    • 1 1/2 cups sifted confectioner's sugar
    • 1 cup butter or margarine
    • 1 egg
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • 1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring
    • 2 1/2 cups Gold Medal Flour
    • 1 teaspoon soda
    • 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
    • Easy Creamy Icing
    • 1 cup sifted confectioner's sugar
    • 1/4 teaspoon salt
    • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla or other flavoring
    • 1 1/2 teaspoon cream or 1 tablespoon water
    • tint with food coloring: green for shamrocks

    Directions

    1. Cookies:
    2. Mix sugar and butter.
    3. Add egg and flavoring.
    4. Mix thoroughly.
    5. Mix flour by dipping method, blend soda and cream of tartar in flour.
    6. Refrigerate 2 to 3 hours.
    7. Preheat over 375 F.
    8. Divide dough in half and roll out 3/16-inch think on lightly floured pastry board.
    9. Cut dough with cooky cutter; sprinkle with sugar.
    10. Place on baking sheet lined with parchment paper or greased pan.
    11. Bake 7 to 8 minutes or until delicately golden.
    12. Icing:
    13. Blend sugar, salt and vanilla.
    14. Add cream to make it spreadable.
    15. Tint icing with a few drops of food coloring.
    16. Spread the icing on cookies with spatula.

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    Comments

    • Julia Ann Souders
      Julia Ann Souders
      Glad to hear you like that cookie too, I wish I had found it when my children were little. We get spoiled when we make our own cookies and food from scratch. Enjoy and best to you and children.
      • Valerie
        Valerie
        This is the sugar cookie I make for all my holiday baking My family just loves them Quick story one year at Christmas I was in a lazy mood didn't want to make the cookies from starch So I brought the frozen kind baked them and did everything just like I had made them My children asked who made these cookies they don't taste like the ones you always make ... From that day on I never brought those cookies again I make Mary's Sugar Cookies !!!!!! THEY ARE THE BEST :)

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