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Brown Sugar Butter Cookies

30 min 50 serves 6 ingredients

Brown Sugar Butter Cookies

Ingredients

  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup butter or Crisco
  • 2 cups light brown sugar
  • 3 rounded teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons lemon or vanilla extract
  • Flour as needed to make medium consistency dough

Method

  1. 1 Preheat oven to 425°F.
  2. 2 Cream butter and sugar, then beat in eggs.
  3. 3 Stir in baking powder and extract.
  4. 4 Add flour gradually until dough reaches medium consistency.
  5. 5 Roll dough out not too thin and cut into shapes.
  6. 6 Bake in hot oven until done.