Soft Sugar Cookies and Strawberry Frosting

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Yes, in case you were wondering this is the recipe for my purple ribbon sugar cookies:) I love making these soft roll out cookies. They are simple and so yummy. I normally just make a plain frosting for the top but this time I wanted to put a little twist on it and make it strawberry. The result was a perfect cookie + frosting that also smelled amazing. Please excuse my random cookie shapes when you get to the cookie pictures....I only have 7 cookie cutters; 2 hearts, a tree, a house, a butterfly, a star, and a maple leaf for some random reason.
P.S. These aren't good for you but when you are making sugar cookies....does it matter? : D

What you need:

1 c. butter
2 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 t. vanilla
5 c. flour
1 t. salt
1 t. baking soda
1 c. sour cream

Frosting

1/2 c. shortening
1/2 c. butter
1 t. vanilla
4 c. powdered sugar
1/8 c strawberry juice

Melt the butter and mix in the sugar.

Add the eggs and vanilla to the sugar/butter mixture. Mix well.

Add the dry ingredients to the mixture. Then add in the sour cream. Mix well until all the ingredients are blended.

Roll out the dough on a floured surface. Make cut outs with cookie cutters.

Bake at 400F, on a greased cookie sheet, for about 8 minutes or until they start to get slightly browned.

Mix together all the ingredients for the frosting. For the "strawberry juice" I just took frozen strawberries and thawed them in the microwave. Then I strained the juice out of them and mixed the juice into the frosting.