Pat Webb’s Christmas Cut-out Cookies

½ cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs, beaten well

2 Tbs cream or milk

1 Tbs vanilla or almond* extract

3-1/2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, cream or milk, and vanilla or almond extract, and beat well. Sift together flour and baking powder and add to creamed mixture. Form dough into a mound, wrap in waxed paper, and chill in refrigerator for at least an hour.

Roll dough out ¼” thick on surface floured with confectioner’s sugar. Dip cookie cutters in confectioner’s sugar each time before cutting cookies. Place cookies on lightly greased cookie sheets. Bake in 375F oven 8 minutes or until the edges are delicately browned. Do not overbake.

*I prefer the almond.