Old Fashioned Tea Cakes

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine
• 1 egg
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 cream butter and sugar.
• 2 add egg.
• 3 sift flour and baking powder together.
• 4 add to first mixture.
• 5 add vanilla.
• 6 roll on floured board to about 1/4 inch thick and cut with cookie cutter. (i use powdered sugar to roll out the cookies, it makes life a bit more fun for my kids). if the dough gets a little hard to work with (on the 2nd or 3rd rolling of "scraps"), form a ball and place it (wrapped) into the refrigerator for 10 minutes to let the dough firm back up.
• 7 decorate with colored sugar and sprinkles if you want to do so before baking.
• 8 bake 7 - 10 minute in oven, preheated to 350 degrees.
• 9 allow the cookies to cool slightly before removing to a cooling rack with a flat metal spatula (pancake turner). cool completely before decorating with icing.
• 10 i've tripled this recipe without any issue. if you scale up, keep most of the dough in the refrigerator and work a reasonable quantity at a time.