Cookie Dough
By: Anonymous
Published: Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 8:08pm

Ingredients




cup butter see * Note
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
teaspoon salt
cup all-purpose flour

Preparation

1 * Note: It's best not to substitute margarine for butter in this recipe. 2 In a large bowl, beat the butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, and salt. Gradually add the flour; beat until well combined. Refrigerate the dough for 1 hour. 3 Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Separate the dough into 4 pieces, then roll out each piece on a lightly floured surface to a 1/4-inch thickness. Cut or mold the dough into desired shapes. 4 Place the shapes on ungreased cookie sheets and bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until light brown. 5 This recipe yields about 5 dozen. The size of the cookie cutters you use will determine the actual yield. 6 Comments: This dough is the perfect starting place for almost endless creative cookie possibilities. One idea: Cut it into the shape of letters to make festive sayings, then, before putting the cookies on the baking sheets, sprinkle with colored sugars and poke a hole through each cookie with a drinking straw. That way, you can lace some ribbon through the cookies and hang them up when they're all done! 7 For more holiday cookie recipes, see "Candy Cane Cookies" and "Grandma's Spice Cookies". 8 Yield: 60 cookies