These cookies taste like those lofthouse sugar cookies you can buy at the store, only these are made with fresh ingredients and no preservatives. My husband's mother Brenda and his Grandma Beckhoff made these cookies every Christmas. They would be frosted white, with a red hot in the middle and two little green frosted ivy leaves.
Casbah Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
1 C. butter
1 C. sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. vanilla
3 C. flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
Instructions
With a mixer, beat well the butter and sugar until creamy. Add sifted dry ingredients. Mix well. Chill in fridge. Roll into balls, place on cookie sheet and then smash down ball with the bottom of greased glass pressed in sugar.
Bake at 375 degrees for 6-8 minutes.
Frosting
1/3 C. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
3 C. powdered sugar
2 T. milk (or more)
Mix all together with mixer. Spread on the cookies.
Recipe Credit: Brenda Rathsack and Janet Starwalt Beckhoff (1934-2002)
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On your first line of instructions on this one...how do you 'beast' well???
These looks delicious.
Hi Arrion, I went looking for the Casbah cookie recipe because I was too lazy to get up and get my recipe card file down! This is a fabulous recipe - the absolute best sugar cookies. I've been making them since I first came across the recipe in Glamour Magazine, when I was 16 years old. I am now 70! I believe my sister and I caught our husband's using this recipe! 😄
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