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Valentine Sugar Cookies

Valentine Sugar Cookies on a plate

Valentine Sugar Cookies are a lightly crisp buttery sweet bite

Origin:

This recipe comes the Betty Crocker’s Cookie Cookbook. Ethel’s Sugar Cookies, this is the sugar cookie recipe my mom Jan Schallberg has always used for the sugar cookies she make, so of course this is sugar cookie recipe I use.

Valentine Sugar Cookies

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Servings: Makes 6-8 dozen cookies
Calories per serving: xxx calories per cookie

Valentine Sugar Cookies are a lightly crisp buttery sweet bite

Ingredients for Ethel's Sugar Cookies:

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup shortening
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt

Ingredients for Butter Cream Frosting:

  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/3 cup butter, softened
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1 to 2 tablespoons milk

Instructions:

  1. Mix butter, shortening, sugar, eggs, and vanilla thoroughly
  2. Stir flour, baking powder, and salt together
  3. Blend butter mixture and flour mixture
  4. Chill dough at least 1 hour
  5. Heat oven to 400 degrees
  6. Roll dough until it is 1/8 inch thick
  7. Cut with your favorite cooky cuter
  8. Place onto parchment paper lined baking sheets
  9. Bake 6 to 8 minutes
  10. Cool on a wire rack
  11. Cool completely and frost with butter cream frosting

Notes:

I prefer to roll out the dough to about 1/8 inch thick, verse the 1/4 inch thick the recipe suggested. I like a thinner cookie and can get more cookies out of a batch of dough.

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