Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

 The perfect cookie for cutouts. Since I found this recipe, in the “Cookie Cookbook” it’s the only one I use for Christmas cookies. DD thinks they are just MARVOLUS!

Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

1/2 cup sour cream
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup butter, — softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 egg
1 tbs. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt
3 1/2 – 4 cups flour
1/2 tsp. [...]

Gumdrop Cookies

This is one of Beth’s recipes I don’t know where she got it but we always had these at Christmas

1 c butter
1 c sugar
1/2 c brown sugar
1 lg egg
1ts vanilla extract
2 c flour
1/2 ts baking powder
1/2 ts salt
3/4 c oatmeal
1 c gumdrops; chopped
1. Mix all [...]

Gg is for Giant Gingerbread Kids

DD and my mom use to always make gingerbread men at Christmas when she was little, so from her kids cookbook Alpha-Bakery pg 17

½ cup sugar
½ cup shortening
½ cup dark molasses
¼ cup water
¾ teaspoons salt
¾ teaspoons ground ginger
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon ground allspice
2 ½ cups Gold Medal all-purpose flour
Raisins or currants

Directions

Beat sugar, shortening, molasses [...]