Sugar Cookies

This is Bryant's favorite cookie recipe. Aunt Harriet makes these every Christmas! I think they taste like those Grandma's cookies you can get in the vending machines. Harriet swears by using Watkins vanilla in this recipe. You can usually get this incredible vanilla at The Quilted Bear (in Midvale, Ogden, or Provo), but beware -- it's about $10 per bottle!

1 cup powdered sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup oil
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
4 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt

Cream sugars, butter and oil. Add eggs and vanilla and mix in. Sift dry ingredients together and add to creamed mixture. This makes a very soft dough, so you may need to chill it for a few hours in order to handle it. Roll dough out on floured surface about 3/8 inch thick. Cut into circles and place on baking sheets. Bake at 350 degrees just until beginning to brown (do not overbake). Let cool on cookie sheet for about 3 minutes, then move to cooling racks. Frost with a buttercream frosting.

Harriet's Buttercream Frosting
2 cubes butter, softened
2 cups powdered sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
2 T. flour

Mix ingredients together and use to frost cookies.