Making the Dough
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup Sugar
1 Egg
1 cup Crisco/Vegetable Shortening
1 cup Milk
1 tbsp Vanilla
5 cups Flour
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Baking Powder
1.) Mix dry ingredients together; set aside
2.) Mix on low-medium speed Sugar, Egg, Crisco/Shortening, Vanilla and Milk
3.) Slowly add in dry ingredients
4.) Once thoroughly mixed/blended together, cover mixing bowl (or transfer to another container) with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. (3-4 hours would be good too, but I always do overnight due to time constraints)
Making the Cookies
When you are ready to start rolling out the dough, be prepared before you take the dough out of the fridge.
1.) Clear off a decent section of your counter and wipe it down. Also prep your cooling/decorating area. I use my kitchen table, I put down old towels to prevent heat transfer and cover them with wax paper
2.) Get out a nice pile of flour, rolling pin and selected cookie cutters
3.) Line your baking pans with parchment paper and preheat your oven to 375*
4.) Get out your bowl of dough and lightly sprinkle it with flour (the dough will be a little sticky, the flour makes it less sticky and easier to roll)
5.) Pull out a decent sized ball of dough (softball size is good) coat your hands with flour and just work the dough a little bit
6.) Spread some flour into the rolling area from the pile, and rub some flour onto your rolling pin
7.) Start rolling out your dough ball, sprinkle more flour as needed (it shouldn't be sticky/sticking to your rolling pin)
8.) Once half rolled, sprinkle with flour and flip over, continue rolling until desired thickness
9.) Take cookie cutter and dip into flour pile, then cut cookie into dough, re-dip cutter into flour, repeat until no more room on dough for another one
10.) Peel away the out-side dough and carefully pick up/used spatula to place cookies onto baking pan
11.) Scoop up dough scraps, get more from bowl and repeat until all dough is used up
12.) Bake 6-8 minutes on 375*, changing racks halfway through
13.) Let sit for 1-2 minutes, then transfer to cooling/decorating area that was set up in step #1
14.) Once all cookies are done and cooling, clean up your mess and get ready to make frosting to decorate these yummy sugar cookies!
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