Recipe: Soft Sugar Cookies (rolled)

Soft Sugar Cookies (rolled)
rec.food.baking/Ilvbakin (Patty) (1999)

This recipe has been doubled from original recipe, it was small. This makes about 75 good size cookies. They will be soft and melt in your mouth.

2 cups butter
2 cups sugar
6 eggs
3 tsp. vanilla
7 cups flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Mix flour, baking powder, salt. Gradually blend into mixture. Chill dough overnight.

Roll out a small portion of dough on a lightly floured surface. When finished with that take the scraps and put some fresh dough with it, they just seem to turn out best this way. The cookies are rolled out fairly thick.

Bake at 375 only until cookie puffs up. About 6 minutes. Cool and frost with a butter cream frosting and I add different types of sprinkles. May also brush egg white on and put colored sugar on and then bake.

BTW, I have doubled this recipe as well, made about 150 cookies, I bake them for my kids class parties and have enough to give some away as well. These are work, so last time, I baked them one day and decorated the following day. That was much better, instead of being in the kitchen a full day.