My Favorite Sugar Cookies

Recipe:

In mixer cream together:

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup margarine

Then add:

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

Mix well.

Add and mix well:

1 cup powdered sugar

In seperate bowl combine:

2 cups flour

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp cream of tartar

1/2 tsp baking soda

Slowly add flour mixture to butter mixture.

Place in fridge overnight or for a few hours. This dough is very sticky so if you want to cut out shapes then keep in fridge as long as possible and use a lot of flour.

Roll out dough on floured surface and cut out shapes.

Or roll in balls and flatten with bottom of a floured drinking glass.

Oven: 350 degrees and bake for 10-12 min.

FROSTING:

1 8oz package of cream cheese

1/2 cup butter (room temp)

4 cups powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla

After a long hunt and several hundred calories later, I've decided that these are my favorite sugar cookies. They are lite and crispy. The powdered sugar in the dough makes them melt in your mouth, the cream cheese frosting doesn't hurt either! YUM!