Grandma's Cut Out Cookies

Ingredients

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• 5-1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp almond flavoring

Directions

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1. Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt and set aside.
2. In second large bowl, use a mixer to combine sour cream and butter at low speed and then add sugar, eggs and flavoring mix.
3. Gradually add the flour mixture to the sour cream mixture, mixing until well combined. The dough will be sticky.
4. Divide the dough and form into 2 balls and wrap tightly in plastic wrap and chill in refrigerator for 1 - 2 hours.
5. Generously flour work surface to prevent dough from sticking, flour rolling pin and cookie cutters.
6. Roll out one of the chilled pieces of dough until it is about 1/4 inch thick and cut out cookies. Repeat until all dough has been cut.
7. Bake at 350 F for 8 - 10 minutes. It’s very important to not over bake the cookies.
8. Transfer hot cookies to a wire cooling rack immediately and let them cool completely before decorating with Royal Icing.