These taste just like Loft House sugar cookies and are just as soft.
Ingredients
- vegetable shortening: 1 cup
- white sugar: 1 cup
- milk: 0.25 cup
- eggs: 2 piece
- vanilla extract: 1 tsp
- all-purpose flour: 3 cups
- salt: 1 tsp
- baking soda: 1 tsp
- butter: 0.25 cup
- confectioners' sugar: 3 cups
- ½ teaspoons vanilla extract: 1 piece (to taste)
- milk: 2 Tbsp (or as needed)
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
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Beat vegetable shortening, white sugar, 1/4 cup milk, eggs, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract together in a bowl. Whisk flour, salt, and baking soda in a separate bowl. Slowly beat flour mixture into shortening mixture to make a smooth dough.
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Roll dough out 1/4-inch thick on a floured work surface and cut into shapes. Arrange cookies on baking sheets.
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Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are firm, about 10 minutes. Let cool.
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Beat butter, confectioners' sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, and 2 tablespoons milk in a bowl with an electric mixer on high speed until frosting is spreadable and slightly fluffy. Frost cooled cookies.
