Mom's Amish Sugar Cookies

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 cup shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring
• colored crystal sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 and spray cookie sheets with a non-stick cooking spray.
• 2 mix shortening, sugar, and egg in a large bowl until well blended; add the flour and mix well.
• 3 then add the baking soda, cream of tartar, vanilla, and almond flavoring; mix well.
• 4 roll cookie dough in colored sugar and than form into a ball.
• 5 put the balls on a cookie sheet and flatten out just a little bit.
• 6 bake at 350 for 8 minutes.
• 7 let them sit for a minute on the cookie sheet once done and then transfer them to a cookie rack.