Sugar Cookies

For our fun Easter celebration I really wanted to come up with a fun activity we could all do after dinner. I thought about dying eggs but decided that would be too messy with little kids that were coming so we decided to frost sugar cookies instead. There weren't too many adults that frosted cookies (mostly they were just chatting), but the one little three year old we had attending went to town with the frosting. It was a good trial run for me to learn how children react to frosting cookies!

These are just a few of the shapes that we used! Flowers, eggs, bunnies, butterflies & ducks. They turned out really cute on top of tasting delicious.

This recipe for sugar cookies is incredible. They have a little bit of lemon extract in them so they have a subtle lemon flavor. Combined with the frosting from THESE homemade oreo cookies the sugar cookies turned out heavenly! However, I am still searching for a lemon frosting to go with this recipe. I think that would make them the best sugar cookies ever invented. Anyone have a lemon frosting recipe?

Sugar Cookies

1 cup butter – softened

1 cup granulated sugar

3 eggs, beaten

3 ½ cups flour

3 tsp baking powder

½ tsp lemon extract

½ tsp almond extract

Cream butter, sugar and eggs. Add dry ingredients and extracts. Chill dough one hour, then roll to ¼ inch thick and cut with cutter on floured board. Place on cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees. When cool, frost or glaze.