Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

Combine and cream well and then add:

2 beaten eggs

½ tsp. vanilla

Sift together:

3 cups flour

½ tsp. salt

½ tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. baking powder

Add by thirds to butter mixture alternating with

½ cup sour cream

Chill 4-5 hours. Roll out to ¼- ½ inch thick and cut with favorite cookie cutters. Bake 8 minutes at 375 degrees F. Frost with favorite icing.

Note: If you prefer, you can form dough into small balls, place balls on cookie sheet and flatten with a glass dipped in sugar.

Grandma Drake always frosted these cookies with pink powdered sugar butter frosting with candy sprinkles. Jane won 1st place in her age group at the Salt Lake County 4-H Dairy Foods Contest. The Salt Lake Tribune food editor wrote a story about her and there was a photo of her with her cookies.