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This afternoon my girls and I have been baking, baking, baking! I found the cutest leaf cookie cutters at the store the other day and so I just HAD to use them! I used Becky Jane's recipe for sugar cookies (one of the authors of FIAR, from the FIAR board) and they turned out beautifully! I made some powdered sugar frosting and bought some FALL food coloring colors to put on the cookies.

Becky Jane's Sugar Cookies

2 Cups sugar
1 cup real butter
1 cup Crisco
2 eggs
2 teaspons almond extract
4 Cups flour
1/8 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 teaspoons baking soda

Cream together the sugar, butter and shortening. Add eggs and almond extract to liquid mix. Mix together all dry ingredients in another bowl and gradually add to the butter mixture. Make into balls and roll in sugar.

Place on an ungreased cookie sheet (I always use a Silpat (silicone) sheet...but parchment is nice too...really helps prevent any sticking w/out adding grease). Press each cookie dough ball down very slightly to flatten. Bake for 10-12 minutes at 350. Cool on wire rack. YUM!

(I make each ball of dough slightly larger than a walnut)

*I did not roll them in balls and sugar, cause I used the cookie cutters. This recipe is a little difficult to roll and cut out, even after chilled. So, we ended up cutting leaves out of about half the dough and making circle cookies out of the rest. Either way...yum!

So, if you are coming over for playgroup on Monday (come one, come all) or if you're in my Tuesday morning Bible study,  you'll get to taste test these fabulous cookies.  The leaf cut outs didn't exactly look too much like leaves and I am not a professional decorator, but these still look autumn-ish with the color and taste good enough that my lack of decorating skills don't matter so much.  Happy Autumn!