You know those sugar cookies they sell in the grocery store at each holiday and occasion? Those are my favourite, and try as I may, I have yet to find a recipe or tweak a recipe that taste as good. However, I do feel that this sugar cookie recipe is definitely note worthy, and so I am going to share it. In all honesty, it could be the cream cheese icing that makes them so good!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter or margarine
• 1 1/2 cups icing sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 tsp almond extract
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp cream of tartar

***if you don’t have almond extract, it taste just fine using only vanilla***

Directions:

• Mix all ingredients together, doing flour last
• Chill for 1/2 hour
• roll out and shape
• cook at 350 degrees for 8 minutes or just until cookie is barely cooked (don’t let them cook until the edges are even slightly browned or you get a dry cookie)

Cream Cheese Icing:

• 1/4 cup butter or margarine
• sprinkle of salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3 cups icing sugar
• 3 tbsp. milk
• 4 oz. cream cheese

Mix together, doing the icing sugar last. If it seem to thick or thin adjust accordingly.

***I will just note here, that they are also really good with cut up fruit on top***