Sugar Cookies - confectioners sugar

Method

• Cream sugar and butter, add egg and vanilla. Mix thoroughly. Sift dry ingredients together and stir into first mixture. Refrigerate 2 to 3 hours.
• Preheat oven to 375°.
• Divide dough in half and roll out on lightly floured pastry sheet.
• Roll thin but thick enough to pick up the design in the cookie cutters.
• Dip cutter in flour before each cutting.
• Cut as many cookies from each rolling as possible.
• The least amount of working with the dough gives the best cookie.
• Place on lightly greased baking sheet.
• Bake for 7 to 8 minutes or until delicately golden.