Sugar Cookies

Thank you Julie N. Every time I make these cookies I feel like I am back with my dear friend at Christmas about 8 years ago. We made waaaay to many cookies and then realized that frosting them was going to take a lot longer than we thought. She had the perfect sugar cookie recipe and I had the perfect frosting recipe. We were a match made in heaven.

SUGAR COOKIES
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup oil
2 eggs
pinch of salt
1 tsp vanilla
5 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cream of tartar

Cream butter and sugar. Blend oil, eggs, salt and vanilla and then add to butter sugar mix. Combine dry ingredients and add to dough. Chill for 3 hours (DO NOT FREEZE IT ALLISON ... it takes forever to thaw). Roll out and cut into shapes.

Bake at 300 for about 10 minutes

FROSTING
1 cube of butter
maybe half a bag of powdered sugar???
about a 1/2 tsp of almond extract
a little milk to thin it out, but nooooot much

(this is a la Pappadopolis style)