Lady Lee's Magical Love Cookies

I made these magical love cookies, as mentioned here.

Now I know it's after Valentine's day and you're not going to be making heart
cut-outs. BUT, this is a handy recipe to have in your back pocket for

any holiday. You better believe I am using the rabbit and egg

cookie-cutters my mom got for me to make these cookies again for Easter

(does anyone know where I can get a cookie cutter shaped like Jesus?

That would take communion to a whole other level. I kid.).

I started with a recipe I found online and then changed a few things so that it was juuuust right.

Here it is, you can thank me later.

Ingredients:
• 1.5 cups of softened butter
• 3 cups of white sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2 tsps of vanilla extract
• 5 cups of all purpose white flour
• 2 tsps of baking powder
• 1 tsp of salt

Directions:

1. In a large bowl cream together butter and sugar until
smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in flour, baking powder and
salt. Chill for at least one hour.

2. Preheat over to 400 degrees. Roll out dough 1/4 - 1/2 thick. Cut
out shapes. Place 1" apart on a cookie sheet. (For best results put a
piece of parchment paper on the cookie sheet under the cookies. The
bottoms won't burn and it just cooks better...)

3. Bake for 6-8 minutes. My oven cooked mine perfectly in 7 minutes, but watch yours as every oven is different.

Frosting:
Here's the easy answer...I mix butter, powdered sugar and add water
until I get a consistency I like. It's really simple and so tasty. You
will need about 1.5 bags of powdered sugar and a stick of butter to
have enough frosting for the magic love cookie recipe.

Enjoy! And if you make em' let me know how they turn out. :)

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