A Stache of Sugar Cookies

There have been many crazes that were incomprehensible to me ...for instance swallowing goldfish, paper dresses, milking and then the most recent, the mustache craze! Mustaches are everywhere from pacifiers to duct tape, clothes to calendars, hole punchers to Easter egg tattoos at Williams-Sonoma. I just don't get it!  Nor does my co-worker Megan. In fact we have given each other ridiculous mustache gifts just because we just don't get it! Last Friday Megan surprised me with a mustache cookie cutter and of course I couldn't wait to make some mustache sugar cookies for her. I hope Megan enjoys the cookies as much as I enjoyed making them for her.

                                                             Sugar Cookies
                                                               adapted from
                                                 The Martha Stewart Cookbook
                                                 Collected Recipes for Every Day 

Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 pound butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons brandy
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Sift together the dry ingredients. In an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar until light, add the egg, brandy and vanilla and beat well. Add the fry ingredients a little at a time and mix until well blended. Wrap and chill the dough for at least 30 minutes before rolling.

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. On a lightly floured board, roll out one third at a time. Roll to 1/8 inch thick and cut out with cookie cutters. Put the shapes on a parchment lined baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes. Do not allow to brown. Cool on racks.

These sugar cookies are delicious- the brandy adds just the right touch!

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