Chocolate Cut Out Cookies

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 10 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

Recipe

• cream butter or margarine and sugar until light and fluffy; add eggs, one at a time, beating well. mix in the vanilla. combine flour, cocoa powder and baking powder; add and mix well. wrap dough in waxed paper and chill for 2 hours.
• preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c).
• divide dough in half. roll out each half to 1/4 inch thick. cut with desired shaped cookie cutters. place on lightly greased cookie sheets and bake for 10-12 minutes.