A Christmas for Katie (9 page)
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Authors: Shelley Shepard Gray
Sour Cream Cutout Cookies Recipe
Ingredients for cookies:
1 cup shortening or oleo
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup sour cream
5½ cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
Ingredients for icing:
1 cup powdered sugar
¼ cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla
Directions:
Cream shortening and sugar together. Add eggs, vanilla, and sour cream and mix. Add dry ingredients and mix well. Chill for several hours. Roll out and cut with your favorite cookie cutters.
Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 8 minutes, or until set and lightly browned on the edges. Cool.
For icing, combine powdered sugar and milk. Mix until the icing is smooth and easy to spread. Add vanilla.
Make 3 – 4 dozen cookies, depending on the size of the cutouts.
SHELLEY SHEPARD GRAY is the
New York Times
and
USA Today
bestselling author of the Families of Honor, Seasons of Sugarcreek, Sisters of the Heart, and Secrets of Crittenden County series. She lives with her family in southern Ohio, where she writes full-time. Her next series, Days of Redemption, launches in early 2013 with
Daybreak.
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Sisters of the Heart series
Hidden
Wanted
Forgiven
Grace
Seasons of Sugarcreek series
Winter’s Awakening
Spring’s Renewal
Autumn’s Promise
Christmas in Sugarcreek
Families of Honor
The Caregiver
The Protector
The Survivor
A Christmas for Katie
(novella)
The Secrets of Crittenden County
Missing
The Search
Found
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
A CHRISTMAS FOR KATIE
. Copyright © 2012 by Shelley Shepard Gray. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition DECEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780062242549
Print Edition ISBN: 9780062242563
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