Sugar Cookies

I love sugar cookies.  I can't make them without having some sort of memory flashback, to my mom's kitchen and our old yellow and chrome kitchen table.  It seems as if we made sugar cookies for every holiday and mom had a huge box of cookie cutters.

I do remember trying to recreate that experience with my kids, rolling out dough, and finding a dusting of flour on every conceivable surface in the kitchen.  We used trowel a thick layer of icing on every cookie and top that with a mound of sprinkles. 

My cookies are much simpler now days, no frosting, no sprinkles and I don't even cut them into pretty little shapes.  I pat the dough into the bottom of a cake pan, and make them into bars.  I take them to school with me in my lunch, and every bite is still pure bliss.

So, today's recipe from Aunt Susie's cookbook is good old fashion sugar cookies, nothing fancy just flour, sugar, eggs, and butter (real butter not that fake stuff).  You can't buy cookies that taste like homemade and they sure don't take you back home.  

Sugar Cookies

2 cups flour
1cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 tsp. baking power
1 tsp. salt
1 egg
1 tsp.. vanilla
1 tbl. milk

Mix flour baking powder and salt in a medium bowl.  In a separate bowl cream together butter and sugar, beat in egg, vanilla and milk.   Gradually stir in the flour mixture (this is where you kiss the Kitchen Aid mixer).  Press this mixture into the bottom of an ungreased cake pan, and bake at 375 degrees for about 15 minutes.