Sour Cream Sugar Cookies and Icing

This is a really FUN recipe for little kids to help you make.  My 3 year old absolutely LOVES to help me dump all the ingredients in the mixing bowl and help mix them.  I am pretty sure his MOST favorite thing to do, is to help roll them out and cut them with cookie cutters and then to frost and decorate them.

The icing recipe is so good and it is so quick and easy to make.  Thank you Kinsey for the icing recipe!

Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter flavored Crisco

2 eggs

1 cup sour cream

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 teaspoon baking powder

Flour to make a stiff dough

Salt - a little in the flour

Combine sour cream and baking soda in a 4 cup bowl or measuring cup.  Cream sugar, butter flavored Crisco and eggs in a large mixing bowl.  To sugar mixture, add vanilla and baking power.  Mix well.  Add sour cream mixture to sugar mixture.  Mix well.  Add flour to make a stiff dough.  Roll thin on a flour covered counter top & cut out with cookie cutters.

Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes.

**NOTE**

~The sour cream will expand once you add and mix in the baking soda, so you do need a larger bowl.

~These cookies stay soft because of the sour cream.  You DON"T have to refrigerate them once they are baked.

Icing

2 cups powdered sugar

1/4 cup margarine - softened

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 tablespoon boiling water

Mix the powdered sugar and margarine together.  Add vanilla, mix well.  Add boiling water, one tablespoon at a time until you reach the desired consistency.