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Easter cookies

Why should be baking restricted to the winter? Prepare some delicious Easter cookies following the simple instructions in this recipe.

Ingredients

1 1⁄2 c butter (softened)
1⁄4 t salt
1 c sugar (powdered sugar)
2 c flour (all purpose flour, sifted)

Instructions

With an electric mixer, beat sugar, butter and salt until creamy. Then beat in the vanilla extract. Slowly add the sifted flour and beat with a wooden spoon until well blended.

Halve the dough, flatten each half and wrap with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight.

Heat oven to 350° F. On a floured surface, roll one half of the dough to about 1/4" thickness and cut out your favorite Easter shapes. Arrange the shapes on an un-greased baking sheet and chill about for about 15 minutes. In the meantime, roll out the remaining dough and repeat procedure.

Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool for a few minutes before transferring the cookies to a wire rack.

Decorate the cookies with pastel color icing and allow to stand until the icing is firm and dry.

Yield
12 servings
Cooking time
15
Preparation time
45
Total time
1 hour

Notes

One serving is 2 cookies.