Erin's Great Grandma Ortner's Cut Out Cookies

Erin's Great Grandma Ortner's Cut Out Cookies
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
2 1/2 cups flour
Cream butter, sugar, and vanilla. Beat in egg. Add flour slowly and mix well. Chill 2 hours. Roll thin on floured pastry cloth. Cut out and bake @ 350 for about 10 minutes or until edges just start to brown. Cool and frost.

Erin's Frosting Recipe
1 cup butter
Approximately 3 lbs. of powdered sugar
Add cream or milk until the consistency is right
Add vanilla until the taste is right
*makes enough to frost a double batch of the cookie recipe*


I found this recipe on some other blog, and the pictures look so tasty, I had to take the recipe! I think I might try it for Thanksgiving. The cookies were leaves and decorated very nicely....and really tasty looking!