Valentine's Cut-Out Cookies & Blue Ribbon Chocolate Chip Cookies

Happy Late Valentine's Day everyone. Hope it was lovely for you. A time of love, memories, and sugar commas.

There's been a lot of sweets in this house lately. It's time for a cleanse. No more sugar for a LONG while. Geeze.

For my daughter's class's Valentine's Day party, I made heart cut out sugar cookies. They turned out so yummy. I absolutely love this cookie recipe.

Roll-Out Cookies:

1 cup unsalted butter, softened,  2 3/4 cups all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar,  2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons Clear Vanilla Extract , 1 egg

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a mixing bowl, cream butter w/ sugar until fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Mix flour, baking powder and salt; add to butter mixture 1 cup at a time, mixing after each addition. Knead in a small amount of icing color, if desired.

Do not chill dough.

On floured surface, roll dough into balls. At this point I use as much or little dough I need for the cookie cutter to cut out the shapes. Dip cookie cutter into flour before each use.
Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet 6-7 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned.

Short of time, I used store bought cream cheese icing, dyed dark pink, with red food coloring.