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For the cookies:
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1. In a large bowl cream together sugar and butter until fully mixed.
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2. Add eggs, milk and vanilla and mix them in.
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3. In a separate bowl combine the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda and salt).
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4. Slowly pour the dry ingredients in with the wet ingredients, while stirring. Mix until fully combined.
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5. With your hands, shape the dough into a ball.
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6. Cover the bowl with a sheet of plastic wrap and place it in the fridge for at least 2 hours (or overnight).
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7. After dough has been refrigerated, preheat oven to 400 F.
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8. Lightly grease a cookie sheet, or two.
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9. Lightly flour your counter top and roll out part of the dough. (keep the rest in the fridge while you work with the first section).
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10. Roll your dough out to be about 1/4-3/8 inch thick.
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11. Cut your dough into shapes (if you don't have cookie cutters, use the top of a glass).
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12. Place cookies 1 inch apart on the prepared cookie sheets.
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13. Re-roll the trimmings and the remaining sections of dough and cut them using the above steps.
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14. Make sure dough is still cold when you put it in the oven. (otherwise put your pan in the fridge for a couple minutes before baking).
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15. Bake cookies for about 7 to 9 minutes until they turn a light golden brown color. (Watch them closely for the last couple of minutes to keep from burning.)
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16. Remove pans from the oven. Allow cookies to cool slightly on pan and then remove them to a cooling rack.
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17. Allow cookies to cool completely before frosting.
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18. Spread frosting over cookies and add sprinkles if desired.
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For the frosting:
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1. In a medium sized bowl mix together all of the frosting ingredients (except food coloring).
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2. Add more powdered sugar to make frosting thicker, add more milk to thin the frosting.
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3. Add about 6 drops of desired food coloring if you want to. Mix to combine.
