Melt In Your Mouth Butter Cookies
- 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Icing
- 1/4 cup margarine
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 - 2 tablespoons milk
- 3 drops food coloring (optional)
- Cream butter or margarine (and yes margarine does work beautifully! I can see some people raising their eyebrows!) with sugar.
- Add eggs and vanilla and mix.
- Add flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.
- At this point you can either roll out and cut with cookie cutters or roll dough into 1 inch balls and flatten on cookie sheet.
- Bake at 375F for 6 to 8 minutes until set, NOT brown.
- Mix icing ingredients together and ice cookies once cooled.
butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, flour, baking powder, salt, icing, margarine, icing sugar, vanilla, milk, coloring
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/melt-in-your-mouth-butter-cookies-116873 (may not work)