Serving: 20 medium/large cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp salt

Directions:

1. Cream the butter and sugar
2. Beat in the egg and vanilla
3. In a separate bowl, combine the flour and salt
4. Mix flour, salt with the buttery egg/sugar mixture
5. Chill the dough for 3 hours
6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
7. On a flour covered surface, roll out the dough to 18″ and cut into shapes with cookie cutters
8. Bake cookies on a greased sheet for about 8 minutes

Add some flair by dipping in chocolate and adding lil’ ones initials if you don’t have a heart shaped cookie cutter!

Last step: enjoy these delicious treats with family and friends!

-Lauren has been babysitting kids since she was in her early teens. She works in-house at LLD and is the office cookie-baker!

Merry Christmas from the Bells!

They’d come in with big smiles carrying presents and piles of plastic containers filled with Christmas goodies. Straight to the laundry room counter they would go. There was extra room there. My brothers and I would take turns sneaking into the room to get cookies. She made the best nutroll. She taught me how to make them and I have continued the tradition with the help of my kids. I’d love to share the recipe but it’s a pretty long recipe, so try this simple but yummy butter cookies recipe instead which you can make with your lil’ darlings.

• Christmas Butter Cookies

Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in as much flour as the beaters can handle. Roll out dough and have fun with your cookie cutters. Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

-Merry Christmas from all the Bells! And to All a Good Night!