Easter Sugar Cookies

These are the best sugar cookies you'll ever eat! These are requested for every holiday in my family. They are also so versatile - you can make them for any holiday. They are sugar cookies so you can use any cookie cutters for any holiday and then just add food coloring to the frosting to match the holiday. At Christmas I make them in green and red and use Christmas cutters. Today I used pastel colors for Easter.

Recipe:
1 Cup Butter (softened)
1 1/2 Cups Sugar
3 Eggs
1 Tsp Vanilla
3 1/2 Cups Flour
2 Tsp Baking Powder
1 Tsp Baking Soda
Pinch Salt

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Sift dry ingredients together in large bowl.
3. Mix wet ingredients in another bowl.
4. Slowly add dry mixture to butter mixture.
5. When completely mixed, place in fridge for about 1 hour.

6. Take dough out of fridge and place some flour on your surface. Roll out about 1/5 of the dough with a rolling pin. Roll to about 1/4 an inch thick. (Thinner if you prefer crispier, thinner cookies) 7. Cut out cookies with cutter. Today I used a round biscuit cutter.
8. Place cookies on cookie sheets lined with parchment paper. Bake for 8-10 minutes.
9. Take cookies out of oven and directly on cooling racks.

10. After the cookies have COMPLETELY cooled, you can start with the frosting. I use white (vanilla) canned frosting and put a little food coloring in each bowl for each color I am going to use. For this batch I only needed 1 can of frosting.
11. Frost the cookies and let them lay out until the frosting has dried. If you stack them with the frosting not dried yet, they will stick to each other.

Don't they look pretty? And they taste as good as they look!