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Hey Scout. hows about weaving your sugar cookie recipe into my life? I'm not happy with the one I have and yours is tried and true.
I've got 25 pounds of flour, 10 pounds of sugar, 7 pounds of butter and plenty of nuts and spices on hand as the Baking Season looms.
Oh crikey I need white chocolate chips...there's always something.

This is so perfect for this holiday season!

Here you go!

This makes around 5 dozen cookies, depending on how you cut them, and the size of your cookie cutters.

1 1/2 cups of softened butter(use a good brand of butter. I tried it with the Irish butter...Heavenly!)
2 cups white sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract(only use real pure vanilla extract-NOT imitation!)
3 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt

Directions:Cream together, the softened butter and sugar. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together and then stir into wet mixture. Cover and chill for at least one hour(longer is better, overnight is best)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F(200 degrees C). Turn out dough onto a floured surface and roll out 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cut out with any cookie cutter you like. Place cookies 0ne inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. I like to use parchment paper to bake the cookies on. The cookies never stick, and there is less clean up.

Bake for 6-8 minutes(being careful not to over bake) and cool thoroughly. Decorate any way you like. The store tube frostings and icings are pretty good, and I like the colored sugars they have as well.

*Do not over handle the dough with your hands. And sometimes I use other flavorings besides vanilla. Almond and rum work very well.

Thanks for the recipe Scout!

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I was totally floored when the goat farmers won. They were always coming in last in all 10 legs of the race. When they won the last leg, that was the first and only time they one a leg - although it was the most important one. The fact that they could identify famous Russian people in history, could correctly calculate time zones, were mechanically inclined in Spain, able to speak French and knew NYC put them over the top over the Texas couple and the Chippendales.

I found it 'interesting' that the UT-Austin couple were so unworldly. They couldn't even calculate time zones. It took Lexi 16 tries to complete that task.

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