Christmas Cookies

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Christmas Cookies

 

Mix:

1 c butter                    1 t soda

2 t cream of tartar   ½ t salt

1 c sugar                     2 eggs

2 ½ c plain White Lily flour

 

When well mixed. Place about 2 cups of mixture on well floured dough board. Roll out and cut into shapes with cookie cutters. Transfer cookies from dough board to cookie pans sprayed with Pam using a spatula. This is very important or your cookies will lose their shapes. Bake for 10 min at 375o.  Watch cookies carefully and remove from oven as soon as the bottoms start to show brown. The top of the cookie should be firm to the touch but still white.

Remove with another spatula to counter top to cool.

 

Icing:

1 T butter                    1 lb xxx sugar

enough cream to make the icing firm.

Food Coloring as you choose

Place icing in pastry bags and decorate as you like.

May sprinkle with sprinkles.