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Sugar Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cups butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 egg yolks
2 t. vanilla
4 1/2 cups flour
1/2 t. salt
Directions:
Directions:
Cream butter and sugar. Add egg yolks and vanilla and mix well. Sift flour and salt together and beat into butter mixture until well mixed. Dough may be twisted into candy canes, rolled out for cookie cutters or dropped into shapes. Bake on ungreased cookie sheets, about 1 inch apart, at 350º . Bake for about 10 minutes but do not brown them. Remove from cookie sheets while still warm and cool on sheets of waxed paper.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
It was the decorations that made these cookies special each Christmas. The frosting can be purchased ready made in cake decorating specialty stores.

 

 

 

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