Busters Recipes

Wyoming Snow Flurries

(holiday roll-out cookies)

1 1/2 cups sugar

7/8 cup butter

2/3 cup shortening

1 1/3 tablespoons lemon zest

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon almond extract

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

4 1/2 cups unbleaches flour

Thoroughly cream sugar, butter shortening and lemon zest. Add eggs, one at a time and stir. Beat batter until it becomes light.

Add vanilla and almond extracts and stir. Mix in salt and baking podwer with the first cup of flour. Add the rest of flour one cuo at a time, stirring after each addition. Roll out on floured counter. Cut with floured cookie cutters. Transfer to papered trays with metal spatula. Bake at 350 for about 10 minutes, until they barely start to brown. Makes 6-7 dozen cookies.