Description
Sugar Cookie Recipe from Allrecipes.com
Ingredients
Scale
Cookies
- 1/2 cup butter (affiliate), softened
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla (affiliate) extract
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 4 oz cream cheese
- 2 tablespoons butter (affiliate)
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla (affiliate) extract
- 2 tablespoons milk
Fruit
- Strawberries, Blueberries, Raspberries, Black Plums, Red Plums
Instructions
- With electric mixer, cream butter, shortening and sugars until completely combined.
- Beat in egg and vanilla.
- Ad flour, baking soda, and salt and gently stir just until combined. Do not overmix!
- Refrigerate dough for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees and prepare baking sheet with either cooking spray or covering in parchment paper.
- Shape dough into walnut sized balls and place on baking sheet. Dip the bottom of a glass in white sugar, and gently press onto dough ball to flatten.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes.
- While cookies are baking, whip together all frosting ingredients, adding more or less milk if the mixture is too creamy or too stiff.
- Wash fruit and slice into desired shapes for decorating mini fruit pizzas.
- Refrigerate until ready to serve!
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins