Elle's Kitchen: Sugar Cookies

Tasty & Fun

I have been making these sugar

cookies for over 20 years.

Ingredients:

For the Cookies:

1 stick butter

1 cup sugar

2 cups flour

1/4 teas. salt

1/2 teas. baking powder

1 large egg, lightly beaten

2 tbls. brandy

1/2 teas. vanilla

For the Icing:

1 1/2 tbls. meringue powder

(available where Wilton is sold)

2 cups powdered sugar

3 tbls. water

Cream the butter and the sugar.

Sift together the dry ingredients

and add to the butter & sugar;

beat well. 

Add the egg, brandy and vanilla

and beat again until well mixed.

Shape dough into 2 flattened

rounds, wrap and refrigerate for

at least one hour.

Preheat oven to 350F.

On a well floured surface, roll dough

until 1/8" thick.  Cut with cookie cutters

and place on baking sheets lined with

parchment.  Scraps of dough can be

rolled out again.

Bake for 10 minutes, do not brown.

Cool on a rack.

For the frosting, combine all

ingredients in a large bowl and

mix for 10 - 12 minutes with

a hand mixer or 8 -10 minutes

with a stand mixer.  Then frost

and decorate the cookies.

Allow frosting to set.

Make some for someone you love!