Valentine's Week

I love holidays. I love any excuse to bake, entertain, and do silly memorable things for my kids. Valentines is one of these holidays for me. Over Christmas we made sugar cookies at my mother in laws house, and she has the BEST recipe for sugar cookies. They taste like the ones at the grocery store that are in a plastic clamshell that have that yummy icing on them, that always changes with the seasons. You know what I'm talking about? You know that ones that are probably super healthy with nothing but white flour, margarine and crisco. But Oh, so yummy. So I had this great intention of making sugar cookies for All of Eric's associates at work, and Taylor and Brent's teachers. This meant making over 150 sugar cookies; iced, decorated, wrapped in a bag and tied with a ribbon. AM I CRAZY! Yes, I was.... there were a few late nights and early mornings, but it got done... and now this week I'll be running... ever so running on the treadmill working off all of those tester cookies that I had to try. So Eric took a cute basket I put together with all the individually wrapped cookies, he took it two different days so people from all the shifts could have one. They loved them, and the kids took their teachers cookies in cute little boxes with clear tops so you could see into them.

Here is the sugar cookie recipe:

3/4c. shortening

1/4 c. softened margarine

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 t. vanilla

3 c. flour

1 t. salt

1 t. baking powder

Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes or until barely brown on the bottom

Frosting:

4 cups powdered sugar

1/2 cup softened margarine

5 Tablespoons milk

1 t. vanilla