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Grandma's Valentine Sugar Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
½ cup butter
½ cup shortening
1 cup sugar
3 Tbls. Milk
1 egg
1 tsp, vanilla
3 ½ cups flour
1 tsp. Soda
1 tsp. Baking powder

Frosting
Milk
Oleo ( margarine)
Powdered sugar
Food coloring
Directions:
Directions:
Preheat oven 350º

Cream first 3 ingredients together
Add milk, egg and vanilla
Sift dry ingredients together and add to creamed mixture
Mix well and roll out thin. Cut with heart shaped cookie cutter. Bake for 7 minutes, til brown around edges. Don't over bake or they become hard and brittle.

Frosting
mix the oleo and powdered sugar together, add milk a little at a time for correct consistency, add red food coloring until it's the right color. Grandma didn't have any measurements here, it should be smooth and pretty thin.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
36
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Grandma Elsie used to make dozens of these and sent them in the mail to all the kids and grandkids, they were always so yummy.

 

 

 

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