Older Than The Hills Butter Cookies Recipe

How to make it

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• For Butter Cookies

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• Cream butter with sugar. Beat until light and fluffy.
• Add flour a lil at a time until a stiff workable dough forms.
• Let refrigerate at about 15 minutes.
• Roll cookies out on a clean, dry surface with a lil flour, if needed, to avoid sticking. Roll out to between 1/4-1/2 inch sheet.
• Cut with metal cookie cutters.
• Place on prepared baking sheet(parchment works best) or a baking stone(this is what I use)
• Bake in a preheated 350 oven for 12-14 minutes until edges are just starting to turn golden.
• Let cookies cool at least 15 minutes on the pan then carefully remove to a cooling rack to cool completely.
• Ice cookies when completely cooled.

• For Butter Cream Frosting

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• Beat butter with vanilla and careflly add powdered sugar alternating with a T at a time of cream and mix well. Continue until desired consitency is achieved. I don't do the smooth perfect iced cookies, because we like the more rustic look...it's what we remember...but, you could ice these cookies with any favorite glaze or icing, if desired.
• Decorate as desired.
• **this cookie dough can also be rolled into a log, chilled well, and sliced to bake rather than rolling out to ice and decorate.