1 cup unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2 ¾ cup flour (original recipe calls for 2 ¾ cup, but I use 2 ½ cups)
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
To make chocolate cookies: add 3 oz. melted unsweetened chocolate.
Cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla. Mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl and add to wet ingredients. Dough should be stiff. DO NOT CHILL! Roll out dough to ¼ inch thick and cut into shapes. Bake at 400 degrees for about 6 minutes. Do not overbake. Use frosting below to frost. I can usually frost this batch easily with ½ of the frosting batch below.
**Use this sugar cookie as the crust on a fruit pizza. The filling is made with ½ cup confectioners’ sugar, 4 oz. cream cheese, and 8 oz. whipped cream. Soften the cream cheese, beat till smooth, add sugar, fold into whipped cream. Spread onto cooled cookie crust and top decoratively with assorted fresh fruits.