Please give me an SIMPLE BUTTER COOKIE recipe that tastes delicious?!


Question: Please give me an SIMPLE BUTTER COOKIE recipe that tastes delicious!?
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Answers:
Butter Cookies

INGREDIENTS
1 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and white sugar until light and fluffy!. Beat in the egg, then stir in the vanilla!. Combine the flour and salt; stir into the sugar mixture!. Cover dough, and chill for at least one hour!. Chill cookie sheets!.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C)!. Press dough out onto ungreased, chilled cookie sheets!.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly golden at the edges!. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks!.

And here's an icing recipe if you'd like to decorate the plain butter cookies!.!.

Cookie Icing

INGREDIENTS
1 cup confectioners' sugar
3 to 4 teaspoons milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
And assorted food coloring

DIRECTIONS
1!. Stir confectioners' sugar, milk and vanilla in small bowl until smooth!. (Add additional milk to thin or additional sugar to stiffen!.) Stir in 3 to 4 drops food color until evenly distributed and icing is smooth!. Add additional drops of food color until icing is of desired color!.
2!. To ice cookies, place cooling rack on foil-lined baking sheet!. Holding a cookie by its edge, dip the top of cookie into icing!. (Or spoon the icing onto cookies using a teaspoon!. Cookies can also be iced using a new small paintbrush!.) Place iced cookies on cooling rack to dry!. (The foil-covered baking sheet will catch any drips!.)
3!. Use contrasting icing colors to decorate iced cookies, if desired!. Place small amount of contrasting icing in small resealable plastic bag!. Snip off tiny piece of the corner of the plastic bag!. Create design by squeezing contrasting icing onto cookies!. Allow iced cookies to dry thoroughly before stacking!.

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