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Animal Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup butter
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup soured whipping cream (include 1/2 tsp lemon juice)
1 tsp baking soda
scant 3 1/2 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla

Directions

Cream butter. Add sugar and cream until very fluffy. Add 2 eggs beaten whole Beat soda into soured cream and add to above ingredients. Then add salt and vanilla. Sift baking powder with 1 cup of flour and add to above ingredients.

Add flour gradually and beat until mixed Chill 8 hours or overnight Flour a pastry cloth (like a course dish towel) and roll out - the thinner the better

Cut into figures with cookie cutters After you cut out one batch, fold up scraps and put in tin foil in freezer. You can roll it out one more time. Be careful not to use any more flour than you have to as the extra flour eats up the richness Bake at 375* until light brown

Frost with cookie frosting