Sugar cookies!!!

Hey Valentines day is kind of the season for sugar cookies for us.  I don't know why.  Maybe we are feeding our winter depression. :)  Anyway, here's my favorite sugar cookie recipes.

Melissa's sugar cookies
Especially good cookies and you don't roll and cut them out.  They taste kind of like dough even after cooked.

1 c. sugar
1/2 c. butter
1/2 c. sour cream
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 egg
2 1/2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt

Mix together first 4 ingredients.  Add egg and mix.  Add dry ingredients and mix well.  Roll walnut size pieces into sugar or sprinkles.  Place on a cookie sheet and bake at 400 for 7-8 minutes or until the cookie starts to crack on the surface.

Sugar cookies
The kind you roll out and cut and then usually frost.

1 c. shortening
1 c. sugar
3 eggs, beaten
1/4 c. milk
2 tsp. vanilla
3 c. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. soda

Cream shortening and sugar until fluffy.  Beat in eggs, milk, and vanilla.  Add dry ingredients until well blended.  Roll out on floured surface and cut.  Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.  For soft cookies, roll dough out thicker and watch your baking time.  For crispy cookies, make dough thinner and bake until starting to slightly brown.

Pan sugar cookies 
Easy because you just spread into a pan - no cookie cutters!

1 1/2 c. sugar
2 1/2 cubes margarine, softened
2 TB milk
2 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
3 c. flour
1/2 tsp. salt

Cream sugar and margarine.  Add eggs, vanilla, and milk.  Mix in dry ingredients.  Spread into a greased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.  Frost and cut into bars.