Vanilla Cooke Dough Recipe

By llpinter

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter or margarine, softened to room temp
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/8 tsp salt

Preparation

Step 1

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Greese baking sheets. In a large bowl, with wooden spoon or electric mixer on medium, beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla extract and beat until well blended.
2. Combine flour, baking powder,salt. With mixer on low, gradually add flour mixture, beating just until blended.
3. Drop dough by rounded teaspoons, 2 inches apart onto baking sheets.
4. Bake 10 minutes. Cool about 5 minutes. Transfer to wire racks and let cool completely.

Glace Cherry Tops: Before baking, roll each cookie into red/green or mixture of both sugar crystals. Press a cherry half into center of each cookie. Bake as directed above.

Makes 3 doz cookies.