I am so very sorry it took me this long to get you the soft sugar cookie recipe. These are just like the ones you can buy in a supermarket: soft, bland and loved by kids. Soft Sugar Cookies for a crowd 1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 2 eggs 2 tsp vanilla 1 cup milk 4 tsp. baking powder 6 cups flour 1 tsp. salt Cream the butter and the sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Alternate milk and the flour mixture to the batter. Refrigerate before rolling out dough. (I roll out onto parchment paper so I don't have to add more than a sprinkling of extra flour). Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes. When cool, ice with your favorite icing and decorations. (My MIL notes here "Uf bitm the cookies are horrible!") My kids adored these cookies and they are very spoiled about homemade goodies.

Oooh, thank you Jannie! I would have missed that completely! I just bought some recently too. Trish

Here's mine-been making these for almost 20 years-a big favourite! From Pillsbury-sorry it doesn't 'read' well-I pasted it from their site. Recipe Tips (1) Reviews (11) RECIPE TOOLBOX INGREDIENTS 1cup sugar 1cup butter, softened1(3-oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened 1/2teaspoon salt 1/2teaspoon almond extract 1/2teaspoon vanilla 1egg yolk 2cups all-purpose flour Colored sugar or decorator icing, if desired DIRECTIONS 1 In large bowl, combine all ingredients except flour and colored sugar; beat until light and fluffy.2 Add flour; mix well. Shape dough into 3 disks. Wrap dough in plastic wrap; refrigerate 1 hour for easier handling.3 Heat oven to 375ðF. On floured surface, roll out 1 disk of dough at a time to 1/8-inch thickness. (Keep remaining dough refrigerated.) Cut with lightly floured 2 1/2-inch round or desired shape cookie cutters. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Decorate with colored sugar.4 Bake at 375ðF. for 6 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheets. If desired, frost and decorate plain cookies.

I know you probably wanted a recipe before Christmas, but I first saw your post. I also was looking for a good recipe for a cut out cookie, and these had a good review. Found on Yummly: Danielle's Cream Cheese Cut-Out Cookies 5 ***** (2) Total time: 2 hr 25 min PT1620S Prep time: 10 min Ingredients: 1 cup salted butter (room temperature) 8 oz. cream cheese (room temperature) 1 cup granulated sugar 1 large eggs 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract (good quality pure, worth) 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 T. meringue powder 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar 3 T. water (lukewarm) 1 Cream together the butter, cream cheese, and sugar. 2 Add the egg and vanilla, mix well. 3 Switch beater hooks for dough hooks on your mixer. 4 Stir baking power into flour then add to butter mixture. Beat well until flour is incorporate. Scraping down sides of bowl as necessary. Take care not to over-mix. 5 Divide dough into at least 4 balls and wrap with plastic wrap. Chill in fridge for at least 2 hours. Can also be frozen. Allow to come to fridge temperature before rolling. 6 I like to make these on the thick side so the tang of the cream cheese can really be tasted. I roll mine just over 1/4" thick. Cut out as many cookies as possible from the first "sheet" of dough. Gather the scraps and put them back into the plastic wrap. Reserve all scraps for rolling later after they chill again. Put your cookies on a cookie sheet. I have never had a problem using an ungreased sheet. Cookies will not spread so they can be placed very close together. 7 OPTIONAL STEP: Put the cookie sheet with your raw cookies into the fridge for about 3 minutes. This keeps the edges very crisp and square. They will not soften and round in the oven. 8 Heat your oven to 350 degrees. Bake first batch and set timer for 8 minutes. Check at this point and see if they still look shiny. If so, add 1 more minute. Should not take longer than 10 minutes. 9 Let cookies cool and prepare icing. Mix icing ingredients in a small bowl with a spoon. Scrape the sides to incorporate all the sugar. 10 Spread icing on cookies with an icing spatula or dip the tines of a serving fork into the icing and drizzle over the cookies. Color and add crunch with decorating sugars.