Santa sugar cookies

These cookies  are super cute and delicious. I found the recipe when I was looking for a sugar cookie recipe that matched Granny B's pink cookies.

Sugar cookie recipe

Cream: 1 C butter

Work in: 1 C sugar

Add: 2 eggs and 1/2 t vanilla

sift together 3times:

3C flour 

1/2 t baking soda

1/2 t salt

1 t baking powder

 Add alternately with the dry mixture in thirds to the butter/sugar mixture:

1/2 C sour cream

Chill 2-3 hours

Roll out and cut into shapes. The dough will be fairly sticky if it gets warm so put it back in the freezer if needed.

Bake at 375 degrees for 6-8 mins

Frost with favorite frosting

Butter Frosting

4 T butter

2 1/3 C Powdered Sugar

Milk

3/4 t vanilla

for Chocolate frosting add 3 T cocoa

Put the butter in the bowl and beat with the electric mixer until fluffy. Then add about half the powder sugar. Then beat in 1 Tablespoon milk and the vanilla. Slowly add in the rest of the powdered sugar. Add more milk if needed. Add food coloring if desired. The recipe makes enough frosting to ice half of a cake mix. I usually double the recipe for the cookies maybe even triple it if I am decorating them.