Ingredients
- 1 cup butter – room temperature
- 1 cup white granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- Tbsp vanilla
- 5 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder (optional) ¼ cup heavy cream
- ½ tsp salt
Directions
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, vanilla and cream and mix until smooth. Combine flour, baking powder and salt and add to liquid mixture. Mix just until well incorporated. Don’t over mix. Roll out dough to ¼ inch thickness between two pieces of parchment paper. Refrigerate flattened dough for 1 hour. Preheat oven to 350°. Peel parchment off of top side. Flip and peel off other parchment sheet. Cut into shapes and place cookies 1 inch apart on parchment-lined cookie sheets. Bake 12 to 14 minutes until bottoms and edges are light brown. Cool. Decorate with royal icing. Makes approximately 36 medium-size cookies.