No Fail Sugar Cookies

1/2 cup Butter
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
2 to 2 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla

cream together first ingredients, then the rest
of the items and mix together. Divide dought in two parts.
chill 1 to 2 hours so it will be easy to handle.
roll dough, one part at a time, to 1/8 inch thickness
and cut with cookie cutters. Keep other part of dough
chilled until ready to roll. Transfer to cookie sheet and
bake 350 for 10 minutes. cool, frost
makes approximately 2 dozen cutout cookies