Ingredients
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1 cup softened butter (2 sticks)
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
3 teaspoons flavoring, extract of choice (lemon, vanilla, etc.)
3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Preparation
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Mix the butter, sugar, and egg together thoroughly. Stir in the flavoring extract you have chosen.
Sift the flour and baking powder together and stir inches Chill dough.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Rool dough very thin (1/8-inch) on a floured surface. Use cookie cutters to cut into desired shapes. Place on ungreased baking sheets.
Bake in preheated oven for 5 to 7 minutes. Remove cookies when they are golden not browned. Place sheets of cookies on cooling racks to cool.
After ten minutes remove cookies from baking sheets and finish cooling on racks.
Baked, cooled cookies may be frosed with pastel frosting or the frosting may be piped around the edges.
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