Old Fashion Sour Cream Cookies

It warms my heart when my daughter Kaitlyn bakes holiday cookies with my mom. Bake a batch with your family and see what happens. It is magic year around.

Old Fashion Sour Cream Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tsp. almond flavoring
• 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour*
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
• 1/2 cup sour cream

Directions:

• Heat oven to 425 degrees
• Mix shortening, sugar, egg, and almond flavoring thoroughly.
• Blend dry ingredients: add sugar mixture alternating with sour cream.
• Divide dough; roll out to  1/4 inch think on well-floured pastry cloth.
• Cut with 2 inch cutter; place on greased baking sheet.
• Bake 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Decorate as desired.

*If you use self-rising dough, omit baking powder, soda and salt.

Makes 4 – 5 dozen cookies.

Warning:  Baking this recipe with small children may result in outbursts of laughter, contagious giggles, wide grins, dirty chins and many happy memories.