Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

1 1/2 c. butter, softened
2 c sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
5 c flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt

Directions

Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix well. Stir together all dry ingredients. Slowly add dry ingredients to wet stirring well after each addition and scraping sides of bowl. Cover and chill for 1-2 hours or overnight. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut dough into 4 sections. Work with one at a time and keep others chilled. Roll out 1/4-1/2 inch thick. (thicker is better) Cut into shapes as desired. Place on greased cookie sheet and bake 6-8 minutes or until edges are barely brown. If bottoms brown they are overdone. Less is more with these cookies especialy if you love soft sugar cookies. Frost as desired.

****** Fatdaddy's note******
Frosting these is where the fun is. Give each monkey a plastic knife and let 'em go. Just keep the washcloths handy! We made these in October for Halloween. Cut some of 'em to look like ghosts and then frosted them with white.

That was boring, though, so Motor decided he wanted to put red sprinkles on his. It made them look like CSI ghosts. White sheets with blood splatters. I should have taken pictures.