Holiday Sugar Cookies

• 2/3 cup shortening
  
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cup flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 4 teaspoons milk

Preheat oven to 350. Cream shortening, sugar, egg, vanilla, and peel. Gradually add flour mixture. Bake for 12 minutes.

These are the best sugar cookies I have ever had! We always make huge amounts around Christmas and deliver them to people. They stay soft for days and aren't grainy sugary...just delicious. Whitney and I had so much fun as kids rolling out the dough and cutting out shapes and frosting them.