#2422 - Cake Flour Cutout Cookies

(by Shirley McNevich)

1/2 cup softened butter
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 TBSP cream
1 TBSP vanilla
3 1/2 cups CAKE flour
2 tsp. baking powder
powdered sugar for sprinkling

In a mixer add butter and white sugar--beat. Add eggs--beat. Add cream and vanilla--beat. Add baking powder--beat. Slowly add cake flour--beat. If it gets too thick for your mixer, remove bowl from mixer and continue mixing using a wooden spoon. Refrigerate dough overnight. The next day take out a handful of dough. Sprinkle some powdered sugar on your counter and place the dough ball on the powdered sugar. Roll with a rolling pin to about 1/4 inch thick (sprinkle some powdered sugar on top of dough also before rolling). Use cookie cutters to cut cookies. Carefully place each cutout on to greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees until light to golden brown (do a test cookie to figure out the time appropriate for your oven). Repeat until dough is depleted. Cool completely. Frost as desired.