by Natasa Shepherd

Created on: January 22, 2009

These very simple, very delicious cookies have a standard base to which you can add an array of options to get a wide arrangement of taste, shape and colour.

Dough:

-2 3/4 cup flour

-1 tsp baking soda

-1/2 tsp baking powder

-1 cup (2 sticks) butter

-1 1/2 cup sugar

-1 egg

To this you can add cocoa for colour and chocolate flavor. You can add food colouring, chocolate chips, raisins, nuts, gummy candy, etc.

Prep:

-Pre-heat the oven to 375 *F.

-Mix all the ingredients by hand, i find its done better that way than with a mixer.

-Grease the pan.

-You can roll the dough out and use cookie cutters, or you can make 1 1/2in balls that will turn into round cookies.

-Bake for about 10 min. (depending on the oven).

-Once done let them cool off for a bit before removing from the baking pan.

- Depending on what you did you can either leave them as is or you can add icing,sprinkles,jam,etc and further have fun decorating them.

Enjoy!

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